The Pragmatist Vision of Religious Experience in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”
Review of International American Studies June 30, 2026 Justyna Fruzińska
“Young Goodman Brown” has been read, among others, as Hawthorne’s commentary on Puritan obsession with sin, as an exploration of the internal demons of the human psyche, or as an allegory of losing one’s faith. Moreover, since the story does not settle whether Brown is right about his neighbors’ hypocrisy, scholars tend to either argue in favor of the reality of Goodman Brown’s vision or see in...