纳撒尼尔·霍桑,堪称美国十九世纪文坛的巨匠,他一度认为自己是“罗曼司作家”而非“小说家”。这正是因为霍桑巧妙地借助罗曼司这一文学体式,在其作品中更多地关注人物的心理,通过想象建构社会伦理观念。同时,受新英格兰文艺复兴的影响,霍桑在其作品中继承了英美文学传统中的哥特文学,为他的罗曼司作品融入了“黑色”元素,增添了一种神秘感,打造出了霍桑独有的“哥特式罗曼司”。霍桑的作品大都有着鲜明的哥特小说的 Nathaniel Hawthorne, the master of the 19th century literary world in the United States, once considered himself “author of Romance” rather than “novelist”. This is precisely because of Hawthorne skillfully resorted to Romance’s literary style, in his works more attention to the psychology of characters, through the construction of social ethics ideas. At the same time, influenced by the New England Renaissance, Hawthorne inherited the Gothic literature in British and American literary traditions in his works, and added the element of “blackness” to his romance works, adding a sense of mystery and building Out of Hawthorne’s unique “Gothic Romance Division ”. Hawthorne’s works mostly have distinctive Gothic novels