Nice. Thanks.<div>Romance by your definition is drama and intrigue, moral and doubtful. Doubting God.</div><div>David Morris<span></span><br><br>On Friday, January 11, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As Tanner explains in his essay on M&D, the use of the subjunctive is<br>
quite important in Hawthorne and in American Romance generally. So,<br>
what is hinted at, suggested, seems to be, may be, is probable, is<br>
rumored, is said to be, is cast about and spun into competing<br>
narrative yarns, some doubtful, others apocryphal.......and given<br>
biblical allusiveness or typology...is, given the latitude of Romance,<br>
when exposed to the sun, to the light, as primitive photography, often<br>
reveals, if only in haunted shadows and ghosts of a walking candle, an<br>
Ahab and his wife and a man who is accused of blashpemy, his land<br>
coveted and taken...and a God whose Wrath seems to exceed his<br>
Providence.<br>
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> Reading into The House of the Seven Gables for the first time since my<br>
> forced youth, I discover this: Early, Chapter 1, when Matthew Maule is<br>
> introduced > we are told that he had long inhabited his shaggy thatched hut but that<br>
> Colonel Pyncheon, > a man with an iron energy of purpose had asserted proprietary claims on that<br>
> land > (and a larger tract adjacent to it) when it became desirable through<br>
> legislative action and ><br>
> "It appears to be at least a matter of doubt whether Colonel Pyncheon's<br>
> claim were not > unduly stretched to make it cover the small metes and bounds of Matthew<br>
> Maule." > No written records. a matter of Tradition.<br>
><br>
> Right here the probable theft of property for development.<br>
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