Romantics-late = Dark/Naturalism "The Gilded Age"

-Hawthorne - probing psychology of sin = grandfather was judge in Salem = guilt as obsessive in fiction

‘evil native to mankind” = adultery deception

betrayal Scarlet Letter

distrust -Goodman Brown Great authors

-Melville- organisized in nature of evil had enduring paradox good/evil linked themes

-Truth- transcending to ours:

-Stanton- social activism for women freedom

-Stowe courage

-Douglas-social activicism of slavery dignity

-Chief Seatle- social activicism for Native Americans depravity

-Poe

-Twain

-Whitman

-Dickenson