![]() Here, in a judicious disclaimer (that has since become standard in fictional works), Hawthorne cautions his readers not bring "his fancy-pictures. ![]() This famous definition of romance is at this point misleadingly simple for what precisely is that system of "laws," "rights" and "privileges" to which the romance writer must adhere? Are those laws that delimit and determine the genre, that is, strictly aesthetic ones? The last paragraph of the same preface suggests otherwise. Romance, Hawthorne explains in the first paragraph of the preface to The House of the Seven Gables, must "rigidly subject itself to laws," even as it claims for itself - in contradistinction to the novel-"a right," or "privileges" of representational latitude and of the freedom of the imagination.
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