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A Hardy Debt to Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance and The Return of the Native.(Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne)(Critical Essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 19990922
Author:SWANN, CHARLES

In Notes and Queries 237:2, 188-89 (1992), I argued for Hardy's debt in Tess to Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. In Notes and Queries 238.4, 493 (1993), Elizabeth Bartsch-Parker, with a courtesy I hardly deserved, pointed out that the argument was not original, that my claim that The House of the Seven Gables (explicitly referred to in chapter 40 of The Hand of Ethelberta) was the only Hawthorne novel Hardy was known to have read was incorrect, and that it would not have involved deep research to discover this. Memories of Michael Millgate's critical study of Hardy would, for ...

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