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Women, Death and Theatricality in The Blithedale Romance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Ffrangcon Lewis
Ffrangcon Lewis
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Ffrangcon Lewis is Lecturer in English and American Literature in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3DY, Great Britain.
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , April 1992 , pp. 75 - 80
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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References

1 Charvat, William, Pearce, Roy Harvey, Simpson, Claude M., eds., The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1964)Google Scholar: The Blithedale Romance, 3, 182.Google Scholar Subsequent references are indicated parenthetically by volume and page numbers. I have also been influenced by several of the essays reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition, edited by Gross, Seymour and Murphy, Rosalie (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1978).Google Scholar

2 Rees, John O., “Shakespeare in The Blithedale Romance,” Emerson Society Quarterly, 19 (1973), 84–85.Google Scholar I am also indebted to Rees for his sense of “double theatricality” in the romance and for his sense that several of the characters are aware that they are acting out literary allusions.

3 Hamlet, Act 3, Scene i, ll. 121–22.Google Scholar

4 Ibid., ll. 89–90.

5 The Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Gallery, 1984, 97 (see also pl. 40).Google Scholar

6 Rees, , 93.Google Scholar