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"To a Practised Touch": Miles Coverdale and Hawthorne's Irony.(Critical Essay)
From: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
Date: 20000301
Author:FitzPatrick, Martin
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance is a strange and clumsily constructed novel that has somehow, nonetheless, sufficiently intrigued enough of its puzzled readers to rise in recent decades to its current position, where it is widely regarded as the "best of the rest," that is, the next most accomplished of Hawthorne's novels after The Scarlet Letter. I am interested in rehabilitating The Blithedale Romance after a fashion, not by explaining away its problems, but by owning them as part of its technique. I submit that the novel's difficulties center in its ambiguous ...
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