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Mauling Governor Pyncheon. (Nathaniel Hawthorne's treatment of romance)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 19940922
Author:Bellis, Peter J.

An interpretation of two moonlight scenes in 'The House of the Seven Gables' proves that Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance is capable of engagement with reality. Holgrave's reading of a story to Phoebe Pyncheon and the scene of Judge Pyncheon's death are the two scenes that reveal Hawthorne's underlying concerns about American political culture. By avoiding a conventional closure, Hawthorne keeps alive the romance's problems with technology, slavery and class.

Hawthorne's conception of the romance has come under renewed attack in recent years, its claim of aesthetic "neutrality" dismissed as ...

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