The Marble Faun (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- First Published: 1860
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, Mistaken or secret identity, Sin or Original sin, Guilt, Obsession, Italy or Italians, Sculpting or sculptors, Rome
- Locales: Rome, Italy
Places Discussed
*Rome. Italy’s capital city, in which the novel’s opening and closing chapters are set. These chapters feature extensive descriptions of the tourist attractions prominent during Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1858- 1859 sojourn in Florence and Rome. As the center of both Western Christendom and an older pagan civilization, the locale helps to fuse together two of the major cultural elements of the novel. Roman history is deeply layered and provides the symbolic background against which to place the two Americans, who come from a New World culture that is thinner...
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