Perhaps the most celebrated anti-transcendentalist of the early American literary era, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a variety of types of literature, but none surpassed his masterpiece,
The Scarlet Letter. This story is his most famous work, which focuses on the subject of adultery during the Puritan era of the early 1600s colonial America. Although, I've also read where it was an allegory for the oppressive government and its outrageous types of punishments. Anti-transcendentalists were those who had a faith-based involvement in Gothic style of writing; also known as the Romantic period.
According to Wikipedia.org, Nathaniel Hawthorne is blood related to John Hathorne, who participated in the Salem witch trials. John was the only one who didn't repent for his role in the witch trials, and accordingly, Nathaniel added the 'w' in his last name to distance himself from that lineage. He was born in 1808 and died in 1864.
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