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...James Walter Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 A Farewell to Blithedale: Coverdale s Aborted Pastoral James Walter In The Blithedale Romance Hawthorne came closest to achieving the bright transparency of meaning in fact that constituted his highest aim in fiction.1 Although...

... or destructive of a community than the impulse which is symbolized by putting on a mask. Brotherhood is an intimate relationship, the giving of one s love to fellow man; the term appears frequently in the vocabulary of Miles Coverdale. At least one function of community is under­ stood by the narrator, although...

... as a teacher, an intellectual, and a feminist; and in Zenobia s tragic career he studied the forces of sexual politics that had shaped the Fuller story. Miles Coverdale, Hawthorne s first-person narrator, instinctively believes that to understand the mystery of Zenobia s life he must acquire a complete...

... on The House of Mirth, and he demonstrates that the lan­ guage of both books is crucial in defining the defeat of individual vision by society. For him the instructive figure in Hawthorne is Miles Coverdale, who illustrates the self-absorbed fastidious­ ness of idealism gone sour ; Coverdale leads to Osmond...

.... Coverdale, the most nearly autobiographical character in Hawthorne s fiction, expresses this sentiment vividly when he leaves the experimental community of Blithedale: It was impossible situated as we were, not to imbibe the idea that everything in nature and human existence was fluid, or fast becoming so...

... or the Coverdale Bible, three words are romantic: brigandine (Jeremiah 51.3), greaves (1 Samuel 17.6), and habergeon (1 Samuel 17.5).7 Helmet and spear are universal; vant-brass and gauntlet do not appear in classical literature or translations of the Bible. Habergeon, avant-bras, grevieres...

... Vision (Austin, Tex., 1957), p. 130. Hoffman, p. 214. The Burden of the Past in Hawthorne s American Romances 103 or there is some mystery about their origin. Coverdale is in actu­ ality a poet and a man of bourgeois values of comfort; he turns into a rather ineffective farmer and temporarily eager...

... by Coverdale Linda . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Drabinski John E. 2011a . Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press . Drabinski John E. 2011b . Review of The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism...

... English translation of Scripture by govern­ ment authority, Matthew s Bible (1537), Coverdale s (1535), all of which are revisions based on Tindale s Version, whose New Testament, printed atWorms inl525,laid the foundation for the Authorized Version. Tindale s version was the first independent translation...

... logic. In Hawthorne s nature a timidity of self-trust was apparent. The greatest obstacle to being heroic, says Coverdale, is the doubt whether one may not be going to play the fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom is to know when it ought to be resisted...

... into their hearts . . . and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself. He was a psychoanalyzed psychoanalyst, a Coverdale chronically observ­ ing, properly insecure in his occupation, made to sense what Haw­ thorne in a letter to Longfellow had noted about himself: I have been carried apart from the main current...

... were surely death itself, the place where presumably one had already lost one’s ancestors beneath the sod, and the evocative King James rendering of a man’s death as “his long home” (Eccles. 12:5) had been anticipated in the “longe home” of the 1525 Coverdale edition. Still earlier appearances...