The Southern Review, March 22nd, 1999
LAST JUNE I WENT TO A CONFERENCE of Nathaniel Hawthorne scholars held in Rome, where the writer spent the winters of 1858 and '59 and found inspiration for The Marble Faun. There were Penguin editions of that book in the hands of these belated passionate pilgrims who wandered out between their scholastic confabulations into a city roaring with vehicular rage but still the city of monuments and art that Hawthorne's Hilda and Kenyon had come from an earlier America to see. Those fictional predecessors, for their part, would have been clutching copies of Murray, the most popular guidebook for n...
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