NP but Hawthorne

[alice wellintown]

Ahab & Naboth's Vineyard (1 Kings 21)


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:41 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> As Tanner explains in his essay on M&D, the use of the subjunctive is
> quite important in Hawthorne and in American Romance generally. So,
> what is hinted at, suggested, seems to be, may be, is probable, is
> rumored, is said to be, is cast about and spun into competing
> narrative yarns, some doubtful, others apocryphal.......and given
> biblical allusiveness or typology...is, given the latitude of Romance,
> when exposed to the sun, to the light, as primitive photography, often
> reveals, if only in haunted shadows and ghosts of a walking candle, an
> Ahab and his wife and a man who is accused of blashpemy, his land
> coveted and taken...and a God whose Wrath seems to exceed his
> Providence.
>
>> Reading into The House of the Seven Gables for the first time since my
>> forced youth, I discover this: Early, Chapter 1, when Matthew Maule is
>> introduced > we are told that he had long inhabited his shaggy thatched hut but that
>> Colonel Pyncheon, > a man with an iron energy of purpose had asserted proprietary claims on that
>> land > (and a larger tract adjacent to it) when it became desirable through
>> legislative action and >
>> "It appears to be at least a matter of doubt whether Colonel Pyncheon's
>> claim were not > unduly stretched to make it cover the small metes and bounds of Matthew
>> Maule." > No written records. a matter of Tradition.
>>
>> Right here the probable theft of property for development.