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This essay aims to explore Nathaniel Hawthorne’s political attitude toward slavery suggested in The Blithedale Romance (1852), as a way of reexamining and questionizing Jean Fagan Yellin’s claim that Hawthorne fails to show slavery issue in his romances. The Blithedale Romance was published amidst the period of the heated debate over the issue of slavery all over the United States. To elucidate Hawthorne’s conservative politics on the slavery, first, this essay focuses not only on the veil imagery in the frame story (story within a story) of a Veiled Lady, but also on the bond-slave motif reiterated throughout the text in the mutually asymmetrical master/slave relationships among main characters such as Prischilla, Zenobia, Hollingsworth, Westervelt, and the narrator Coverdale. Second, this essay examines the author’s conservative attitudes toward his contemporary progressive reformists, considering the author’s own experiences and observations in 1841 at the experimental utopian community, Brook Farm, as a crucial basis of creating The Blithedale Romance, and his presidential campaign biography of Franklin Pierce, Life of Franklin Pierce (1852). Lastly, this essay investigates the author’s psychological fear of violence which, from Hawthorne’s perspective, seemed to occur among some renowned radical activists’ antislavery movements in antebellum America. To explore Hawthorne’s fear of violence, this essay focuses on the philanthropist Hollingsworth’s commitment of violence to Zenobia’s heart and her dead body in a psychological and physical manner, respectively. This study would help us understand that Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance is a political romance insinuating his skeptical conservatism in abrogating slavery system, the peculiar institution of the United States.

목차

I. 서론
 II. 『블라이드데일 로망스』에 나타나는 속박된 노예의 모티프
 III. 노예제도 폐지론자를 비롯한 개혁가들에 대한 호손의 보수적 태도
 IV. 급진적 개혁주의에 수반되는 폭력에 대한 호손의 두려움
 V. 결론
 인용문헌
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저자

• 정진만 [ Jin Man Jeong | 경희대 ]

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간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813