caa a22 4500 397551754 CHVBK 20180308164752.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199603 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/litthe/10.1.44 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/litthe/10.1.44 Britt Brian M. Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, U.S.A. THE VEIL OF ALLEGORY IN HAWTHORNE'S THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE [Elektronische Daten] [Brian M. Britt] When Nathaniel Hawthorne fictionalized his Brook Farm experience in The Blithedak Romance, he named his narrator and central character Miles Coverdale, the first person to publish a complete English translation of the Bible. Hawthorne's novel and journals say almost nothing about translation, but they are filled with allegory and symbolism. This essay examines The Blithedale Romance m the light of Walter Benjamin's ideas of translation and allegory. Compering ideas of the world—socialism, feminism, occultism, aestheticism, and Puritanism—collide in the novel. The result is a fragmented narrative that distorts what it depicts—particularly the women characters—and a metanarrative on the limitations of storytelling as translation. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence Literature and Theology Oxford University Press 10/1(1996-03), 44-57 0269-1205 10:1<44 1996 10 litthe https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/10.1.44 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/10.1.44 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Britt Brian M. Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Literature and Theology Oxford University Press 10/1(1996-03), 44-57 0269-1205 10:1<44 1996 10 litthe Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford