...insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a Romance about a country...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery. 12 Not only is it the case that James criticizes Hawthorne for doing precisely what the earlier author...

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...1 But in the preface to The Marble Faun, the Italian setting is justified as an alternative to the country "where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy evil."174 And the ambivalence of the images of Rome is tantamount to the contaminations which pull...

...from the United States that he makes the seemingly outrageous statement that in his "dear native land" there "is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong" (3). In particular, Hawthorne locates Rome as the ideal setting for a Romance because, unlike the United...

...insisted upon, as they are, and must needs be, in America. 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" (preface to The Marble Faun, 3). (The complex meaning of this statement is tested further in the crucial...

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