Contexts for Hawthorne: The Marble Faun and the Politics of Openness and Closure in American Literature

actualities allegiance American literature Amory Dwight Mayo artist asserts assumptions Beautiful become Blithedale Romance characters Classicist Classicist utopia conflict conservative context conventional cosmic create critical culture dark demands dissent Donatello dramatic dream ending England essence expression function Hawthorne's fiction Hester Hilda House human idea identity ideological conservatism imagination implications insistence Joan Didion Kenyon lady light literary marketplace Major Molineux Marble Faun materials matter Melville Melville's millennialistic Miriam mirror moral narrative Nathaniel Hawthorne nationalistic nature novel openness and closure paradox past polis political popular preface present Puritan quoted in Crowley radical reader reality relationship repudiation reveals reviewers rhetoric Romantic openness Romantic utopia Romanticism Scarlet Letter sense Seven Gables shadow sketch social society spiritual status quo suggests sunshine sympathy tale thematic theme tion true truth Twice-Told Twice-Told Tales utopia utopian conservatism verisimilitude vision vocational voice Wakefield world picture writer Young Goodman Brown