 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, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight,...  Macmillan's Magazine - Side 237redigeret af - 1904Fuld visning - Om denne bog
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 | Brian R. Harding - 1998 - 658 sider
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 | Evan Cornog - 1998 - 241 sider
...virtue, for his art. How, Hawthorne asked in 1860, could a novelist practice his trade in a land with "no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy...broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case in my dear native land."8 SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES Clinton, in his own time, was less preoccupied with... | |
 | Henry James - 1997 - 172 sider
...just a page before his own); Hawthorne had declared that "no author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, not anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with... | |
 | Brian R. Harding - 1998 - 566 sider
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 | John D. Seelye - 1998 - 724 sider
...regarded as "one of the most perfect works of art in literature") that there was in his native land " 'no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but...commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight' " (346, 350-51). Had not, wondered Curtis, Uncle Tom's Cabin already proved otherwise, or was "crime... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 sider
...literature was a pale imitation of its British model. Copycats "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. " — Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850s For nearly 200 years, American readers had looked to Europe, mainly... | |
 | Karyna Szmurlo - 1999 - 326 sider
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