![]() ![]() Readability: FleschKincaid Level: 11. ![]() ![]() the profound conflict between the limited claims of American moralism and of European aestheticism.' inventory #31065. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne Chapter IX: The Faun and Nymph Additional Information Year Published: 1860 Language: English Country of Origin: United States of America Source: Hawthorne, N. It projects the author's fascination with the eternal struggle between, in Murray Krieger's words, 'the unfeeling virtue of moral severity and the yielding grace of faulty humanity. Of all Hawthorne's fiction, The Marble Faun clearly dispels the myth of Hawthorne's unwavering Puritan morality. Hawthornes novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality. the murder committed by Donatello under Miriam's eyes and the ecstatic wandering, afterward, of the guilty couple through the 'bloodstained streets of Rome,' it would still deserve to rank high among the imaginative productions of our day.' The cosmopolitanism of this novel foreshadows one of the most important themes in our literature - the 'international theme' which was 40 later dominate the work of Henry James. If the book contained nothing else noteworthy but. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Henry James wrote of The Marble Faun: 'Hawthorne has done few things more beautiful than the picture of the unequal complicity of guilt between his immature and dimly - puzzled hero, with his clinging, unquestioning, unexacting devotion, and the dark, powerful, more widely - seeing feminine nature of Miriam. ![]()
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