In the history of American literature, Hawthorne ranks among the few important writers whose works responded to the call of the times for American literature, other writers of this group including Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and Whitman, etc. .

• 在美国文学史上，霍桑是为数不多的响应时代对美国本土文学的呼唤的作家之一，这些作家还包括库柏、爱默生、梭罗、麦尔维尔以及惠特曼等。