"and what's romance?"
"'Nathaniel Hawthorne writes romance.'
'And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy time...
Hawthorne obviously isn't this kind of romanticist, though nobody has muddy boots in The Scarlet Letter...'
'But there's more to it, The Scarlet Letter isn't a pleasant, pretty romance. It is a sort of parable, an earthly story with a hellish meaning.'"
This is a D.H. Lawrence style of talking about other writers, and opens up the discussion for what type of romance The Scarlet Letter is, as well as what type of Romantic Hawthorne is. By the way, I'll officially state that I am exclusively dealing with The Scarlet Letter to explore Hawthorne's Romanticism. More to come...
Manley, Seon. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Captain of the Imagination. New York, Vanguard, 1968.
'And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy time...
Hawthorne obviously isn't this kind of romanticist, though nobody has muddy boots in The Scarlet Letter...'
'But there's more to it, The Scarlet Letter isn't a pleasant, pretty romance. It is a sort of parable, an earthly story with a hellish meaning.'"
This is a D.H. Lawrence style of talking about other writers, and opens up the discussion for what type of romance The Scarlet Letter is, as well as what type of Romantic Hawthorne is. By the way, I'll officially state that I am exclusively dealing with The Scarlet Letter to explore Hawthorne's Romanticism. More to come...
Manley, Seon. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Captain of the Imagination. New York, Vanguard, 1968.
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