호손, 제노비아, 그리고 문학시장

This paper attempts to analyze the attitudes of the main characters in Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance to the 'separate spheres' as well as Hawthorne's attitude toward the contemporary women writers revealed in his private writings. Especially, the narrator Coverdale's and Hawthorne's attitudes may reflect male writers' anxiety on the "feminized" literary marketplace at the time. The poet narrator Coverdale is attracted by the female protagonist Zenobia's sexuality but also has repugnance against her popularity as a writer and reformer for women's rights. He discounts Zenobia's ability as a writer and maliciously describes her death. Coverdale's treatment of Zenobia reminds us of Hawthorne's description of Margaret Fuller's death in Ire French and Italian Notebooks. This paper concludes that Hawthorne punishes the strong female character Zenobia who resembles Fuller by putting her to death, for crossing the gender boundaries by becoming a writer and female reformer.