{"id":13426,"date":"2020-07-31T22:53:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T02:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/?post_type=collection&#038;p=13426"},"modified":"2021-03-26T14:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:06:19","slug":"nathaniel-hawthorne-and-the-spirit-of-science","status":"publish","type":"collection","link":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/collections\/nathaniel-hawthorne-and-the-spirit-of-science","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several of the best stories&nbsp;by&nbsp;the great American writer Nathaniel  Hawthorne (1804\u20131864) touch on the moral meaning of modern science. <em>The New Atlantis<\/em> is publishing a series of essays devoted to Hawthorne\u2019s&nbsp;stories about science, technology, and progress. With every essay but one, we are publishing online a critical edition of the corresponding Hawthorne story. Each essay is accompanied by illustrations by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottbanfield.com\/\">Elliott Banfield<\/a>. The illustrations are collected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/hawthorne-series-images\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about Hawthorne and our series, please read our introductory essay, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/nathaniel-hawthorne-and-the-spirit-of-science\">Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Spirit of Science<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"lazyblock-epigraph-inQtV wp-block-lazyblock-epigraph\"><div class=\"block-tna-editors-note md:mx-6 lg:mx-16 py-8 px-10 mb-6 bg-almost-white\">\r\n        <div class=\"font-bold text-lg text-center mb-2\">\r\n        A note on the critical editions      <\/div>\r\n    \t<div class=\"text-lg leading-relaxed\">\r\n\t  <p>The text of the Hawthorne\u00a0stories presented in this series\u00a0is generally based on the final editions published during the author\u2019s lifetime.\u00a0Our critical editions keep intact the original spelling and punctuation, except when the source text\u00a0is\u00a0obviously mistaken.\u00a0Paragraphs are numbered for the purposes of classroom discussion, and all annotations are by our editorial team, unless otherwise indicated.<\/p>\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":14335,"template":"","collection_type":[2248],"topics":[5029,5041,5032,5003,2281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/13426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/collection"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection_type?post=13426"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=13426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}