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Hawthorne's Edward Randolph's Portrait.(Nathaiel Hawthorne)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20070922
Author:White, Charles Dodd

Although Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Legends of the Province-House" has fallen out of favor with much recent criticism of his short fiction, they remain illustrative in terms of understanding his early development of his theory of the romance. In each of the tales within "Legends," a myth-based sense of history informs a framed-narrative structure, investing a supernatural quality in these "Twice-Told Tales." Serving as both historical and romantic stories, the legends exist in two dimensions: historiography and superstition. In part 2 of "Legends," "Edward Randolph's Portrait," the ...

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