Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Essay Example
DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF COUNTRY
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" was first published anonymously in the January 1837 issue of Knickerbocker magazine under the title "The Fountain of Youth." Hawthorne republished it in book form later that year in United States, under his own name and its current title, in a collection of stories called Twice-old Tales (in the sense that every tale had been published somewhere else before and hence was being told for the second time).
Interestingly, in 1860, Hawthorne added to his story a note addressing a supposed accusation of plagiarism against him. It seems that an English review of his story insinuated that he lifted the idea from Mémoires d'un Médecin, a novel by Alexandre Dumas (whom you know as the author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo). In his note, Hawthorne points out that he wrote "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" twenty years earlier and long before Dumas's novel, but that the far more famous Dumas is welcome to lift any ideas he pleases from Hawthorne's own work.
INTRODUCTION
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is a short story by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, about a doctor who claims to have been sent water from the Fountain of Youth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4 July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts in the family home at 27 Hardy Street, now a museum. He was the son of Elizabeth Clarke Manning and Nathaniel Hathorne, a Captain in the U. S. Navy who died when Nathaniel was four years old. His ancestors were some of the first Puritans to settle in the New England area and the lingering guilt Hawthorne felt from his great grandfather having officiated during the Salem Witch Trials provided a theme for many of his stories including The House of Seven Gables. After his father died Nathaniel and his mother moved to her parents’ home just a few doors down from #27, which Hawthorne referred to as ‘Castle Dismal’. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF COUNTRY
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" was first published anonymously in the January 1837 issue of Knickerbocker magazine under the title "The Fountain of Youth." Hawthorne republished it in book form later that year in United States, under his own name and its current title, in a collection of stories called Twice-old Tales (in the sense that every tale had been published somewhere else before and hence was being told for the second time).
Interestingly, in 1860, Hawthorne added to his story a note addressing a supposed accusation of plagiarism against him. It seems that an English review of his story insinuated that he lifted the idea from Mémoires d'un Médecin, a novel by Alexandre Dumas (whom you know as the author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo). In his note, Hawthorne points out that he wrote "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" twenty years earlier and long before Dumas's novel, but that the far more famous Dumas is welcome to lift any ideas he pleases from Hawthorne's own work.
INTRODUCTION
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is a short story by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, about a doctor who claims to have been sent water from the Fountain of Youth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4 July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts in the family home at 27 Hardy Street, now a museum. He was the son of Elizabeth Clarke Manning and Nathaniel Hathorne, a Captain in the U. S. Navy who died when Nathaniel was four years old. His ancestors were some of the first Puritans to settle in the New England area and the lingering guilt Hawthorne felt from his great grandfather having officiated during the Salem Witch Trials provided a theme for many of his stories including The House of Seven Gables. After his father died Nathaniel and his mother moved to her parents’ home just a few doors down from #27, which Hawthorne referred to as ‘Castle Dismal’. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin