Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ( )’s transcendentalist the

Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ( )’s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.
A、W. Longfellow
B、Walt Whitman
C、W. Emerson
D、Washington Irving
【正确答案】：C
【题目解析】：霍桑受了爱默生的超验主义理论的影响并与他建立了非常亲密的关系。