The case with my dear native land: Nathaniel Hawthorne's vision of America in The Marble Faun

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 455-479

  Tellefsen, Blythe Ann ^a  

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EID: 63149191215     PISSN: 08919356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2903013     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni, ed. William Charvat and Fredson Bowers, et al., vol. 4 of The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1968), p. 146. Further references are to this edition and appear in the text
2. See Contexts for Hawthorne: "The Marble Faun" and the Politics of Openness and Closure in American Literature (Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1991) , p. 15
3. See Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Chiefly about War-matters. By a Peaceable Man," in Miscellaneous Prose and Verse, ed. Thomas Woodson, Claude M. Simpson, and L. Neal Smith, vol. 23 of The Centenary Edition (Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1994), p. 420
4. Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1986), p. 4
5. This ideal, of course, was hardly a reality. For a moving description of one such colonized subject's experience with (un)becoming French, see Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (New York: Grove Press, 1967)
6. The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991), p. 64
7. Additionally, Miriam herself, at the end of the novel, "described herself as springing from English parentage, on the mother's side, but with a vein, likewise, of Jewish blood" and explains that she fled a proposed marriage (The Marble Faun, pp. 429-30)
8. William Wells Brown, Clotel, or the President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (London: Partridge and Oakey, 1853)
9. Charles Chcsnutt, The House behind the Cedars (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, igoo)
10. and Lydia Maria Child, A Romance of the Republic (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867)
11. For further discussion of this figure, see Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood
12. Yellin, Women and Sisters
13. and Carolyn L. Karcher, "Lydia Maria Child's A Romance of the Republic. An Abolitionist Vision of America's Racial Destiny," in Slavery and the Literary Imagination, ed. Deborah E. McDowell and Arnold Rampersad (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1989), pp. 81-103
14. See, for instance, Hopkins, Of One Blood
15. Dana D. Nelson's chapter on Lydia Maria Child's A Romance of the Republic offers some interesting criticism of the white abolitionist's urge to "elevate" African Americans to white bourgeois standards of appearance and behavior (see "W/Righting History: Sympathy as Strategy in Hope Leslie and A Romance of the Republic" in her The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race"in American Literature, 1638-1867 [New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992], pp. 65-89)
16. See Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, in A Jonathan Edwards Reader, ed. John E. Smith, Harry S. Stout, and Kenneth R. Minkema (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1995), pp. 89-105
17. For further discussion of this complicated issue, see also David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (New York: Verso, 1991)
18. "The Choice of Innocence: Hilda in The Marble Faun," Studies in the Novel, 26 (1994).378
19. The Feminization of American Culture (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), p. 63