...exploitation, a picturesqueness he connects in "Old News" and "Chiefly About War Matters" to racial difference: "No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my...

...Tocqueville (in Democracy in America, 1840) and Hawthorne (in his preface to The Marble Faun, 1860): No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my...

...conspicuous tower of the huge Villa di Montauto. Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Marble Faun ize its traits... No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a In the 185os Nathaniel Hawthome stayed at the Villa di Montauto. In a letter written at that time he...

...Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun.12 Hawthorne had ironically bemoaned the situation in America where No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my...

...of many Americans who have tried to write novels and to lay the scene of them in the western world. "No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my...

...Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun.12 Hawthorne had ironically bemoaned the situation in America where No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my...

...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon, äs they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, äs is happily the case with...

...American scene where "actualities" were "so insisted upon." No author, without a trial," he writes, "can conceive of the difficulty of writing a Romance...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a common-place prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my...

...where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty...where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery. 12 Not only is it the case that James criticizes Hawthorne for doing precisely what the earlier author...

...attitude toward the past, for in the preface to his last novel, The Marble Faun ( \ 860), he speaks of the "difficulty of writing a romance about a country...antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my...