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Hawthorne's novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality. Although it is set in Rome, the fictive world of The Marble Faun depends not on Italy's social or historical significance, but rather on its aesthetic importance as a definer of 'civilization'. As in The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne is concerned here with the nature of transgression and guilt. A murder, motivated by love, affects not only Donatello, the murderer, but his beloved Miriam and their friends Hilda and Kenyon. As he explores the reactions of each to the crime, Hawthorne dramatizes both the freedoms a new cultural model inspires and the self-censoring conformities it requires. His examination of the influence of European culture on American travellers lay the groundwork for such later works of American fiction as Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad and Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady.
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Fiction, Murder, Women art students, Americans, Artists, Nobility, Classic Literature, Literature, Rome (Italy), Psychological fiction, Love stories, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Artists, fiction, Rome (italy), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, romance, general, Crime, fiction, Women artists, fiction, Italy, fiction, Large type books, Guilt, Conscience, HistoryPlaces
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Title printed in red and black.
Preface dated Leamington, December 15, 1859.
Published simultaneously in London, in 3 vols., by Smith, Elder, and company, under title: Transformation, or, The romance of Monte Beni.
"The ms. of 'The marble faun' is in a private collection in England, and, in fact, was never in this country, as the American edition was set up from proof-sheets of the English edition ..."-Cf. Cathcart, W.H. Bibl. of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cleveland, 1905.
Library's copy is extra-illustrated with albumen prints
Gift of Gloria and Stanley Fishfader.
Binding: cloth boards; half leather; spine with gilt title; edges stained red; inscribed by Mary D. Beardsley on p. preceding t.p.
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