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  • A Future through the Veil: Subversion of the Marriage/Family System in The Blithedale Romance

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This article attempts to interpret Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance（1852）as a literary version of one of those social reform projects which were prevalent in the mid-nineteenth century. Here the mesmeric entertainment called“the Veiled Lady” is focused upon to investigate the aim of the social reform that the text and the experimental community,“the Blithedale,”try to achieve. The analyses of the relationships among the characters in terms of“the Veiled Lady”reveal the narrator's homosexual desire for the leader of the community. For the narrator, the aim of the community is to reform the prevailing marriage/family system; he imagines a polygamous family including marriage between the same sexes. His hope is, however, actually destroyed because for the leader of this community its aim is to construct a facility for the rehabilitation of criminals who could be interpreted as including sexual perverts. On the other hand, the text itself can be regarded as subversive of the hegemonic heteronormality, by delineating the process that the social acceptance is almost given to deviant sexualities. It presents\ , as a literary form of“romance,”a possibility for new forms of family and intimacies to its readers.

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  • F-GENSジャーナル

    F-GENSジャーナル 5 347-353, 2006-03

    お茶の水女子大学21世紀COEプログラムジェンダー研究のフロンティア

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