[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

...response to Go Down, Moses, received almost no negative comments in Britain. No author can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, as is happily the case with my dear native land. Hawthorne need not have worried: it did not remain...

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

...ever emerged. James notes that even Hawthorne himself had lamented in his preface to The Marble Faun "the difficulty of writing a Romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiq37 uity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity,...

...of primitive being and modern man. 'In our country,' says the American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 'there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong.' For an original primitive like Whitman his innate inclination is to do more or less primitive reading;...

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

...to confirm Hardy's reasons for declining the 'invitation'; No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.4 Hawthorne could claim one of the longest pedigrees conceivable for an American of European descent,...