NP but Pyncheon

[alice wellintown]

A Law Journal might publish a special edition on Hawthorne & Pynchon &
the Law.

The Laws that guide the Romance as Genre.

The non-aesthetic laws that Hawthore dilineates in the famous Preface.

Why that paragraph about the "lot" has been called a most
**judicious** disclaimer and has become standard.

How the law deals with photgraphy: the mixing of the real and the reel
or the fancy-pictures and the glossy pictures.

How fancy (i.e. to fancy and imagine) pictures (projections of reader
response) in a historical/political reading expose the romance "to an
inflexible and exceedingly dangerous species of criticism."

so on  ...

see American Quarterly 49.4 (1997) 746-779

Hawthorne's Romance and the Right to Privacy
Milette Shamir