...time he denatello, Count of Monte Beni after whom his novel The Marble Faun was named. In the Preface romance about a country where there is no shadow. no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy clared: "/ like my present residence immensely. The house stands on a hill, overlooking...

...had ironically bemoaned the situation in America where No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily...

...had ironically bemoaned the situation in America where No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily...

...novels and to lay the scene of them in the western world. "No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily...

...where "actualities" were "so insisted upon." No author, without a trial," he writes, "can conceive of the difficulty of writing a Romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily...

...insisted upon, äs they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a Romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, äs is...

...attitude toward the past, for in the preface to his last novel, The Marble Faun ( \ 860), he speaks of the "difficulty of writing a romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily...

...problem of Gables. In the preface to Faun, Hawthorne writes: No author, without a trial, can conceive ol the difficulty of writing a romance about a country...no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily...

...insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a Romance about a country...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery. 12 Not only is it the case that James criticizes Hawthorne for doing precisely what the earlier author...

...1 But in the preface to The Marble Faun, the Italian setting is justified as an alternative to the country "where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy evil."174 And the ambivalence of the images of Rome is tantamount to the contaminations...