The Wives of the Dead

What is the author's style in The Wives of the Dead by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

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"The Wives of the Dead" is an American romance. The term "romance" emerged during the Middle Ages and often referred to stories with farfetched plots and exotic settings, involving knights and their quests, and chivalric behavior. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the term became synonymous with stories emphasizing emotion and subjective experience.