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Romance focuses
“upon the extraordinary, the
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mysterious, the
imaginary.” –Bliss Perry (1903)
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Nathaniel
Hawthorne: the romance “has fairly a
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right to present
that truth under
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circumstances,
to a great extent, of the writer’s
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own choosing or
creation” (Preface to The
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House of the Seven
Gables)
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