AMERICAN LITERATURE
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False
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hawthorne here self-identifies as a transcendentalist, at least by proxy, even if his artistry does not conform with (inasmuch as it never aspired to meet all of) the requisitions of the philosophy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Emerson and His Practices Although he denied he was a transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was rightly viewed by his peers and is rightly viewed by contemporary scholars as the primary philosophical exponent of American transcendentalism, followed by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862).
Detailed explanation-3: -Transcendentalism is an American literary, philosophical, religious, and political movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Detailed explanation-4: -Though Hawthorne seems to want to believe in the optimistic potential of the spiritual and intellectual ideal presented in Emersonian Transcendentalism, he consistently dwells on the evil and blackness that may be contained in the human heart.