4 - 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)

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This week Alex and I discuss one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's earliest short stories, 'Young Goodman Brown,' published anonymously in The New-England Magazine in 1835.

References:

Dr. Barry Wood's lectures from 1997 on Hawthorne and Puritans from U. of Houston, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne: Return to Puritanism.'

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzON7iPsfA&t=4328s)

Hawthorne biographer Brenda Wineapple on CSPAN in 2003, talking about her book (also referenced) 'Hawthorne: A Life."

(https://youtu.be/E2ROtZCxrJM)

Brian Roberg's Librivox narration of 'Young Goodman Brown.'

(https://librivox.org/short-story-collection-002/)

'An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States' by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

'A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience' by Emerson W. Baker

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