A change of art: Hestr, Hawthorne, and the service of love

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Tomc, S ^{[1
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[1] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada

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NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE | 2002年 / 56卷 / 04期

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10.1525/ncl.2002.56.4.466

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I [文学];

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05 ;

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In this essay I argue that the 1950s and 1960s formulations of the American "romance" by such critics as Richard Chase and Leslie Fiedler were inflected by the simultaneous debasement in those same years of terms "romance: with respect ti women's commerical fiction. I go to consider how Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850), which of course includes the author's famous definition of "romance," has helped to prop up and perpetuate a cultural hierarchy premised on the derogation of narratives of heterosexual women's desire. I argue that in his search for modern privatized authority, Hawthorne begins The Scarlet Letter by embracing antebelleum tales of women's love sexual passion. His subsequent rejection of these tales enables the hierarchization of genres that allowed twenieth- century critics to draw iron-clad distinctions between American romance and women's romance.

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页码：466 / 494

页数：29

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