One section in this work argues that Hawthorne's treatment of the "seduction theme" in Fanshawe consists of "absurdly conventional action rendered in the style of the female epigones of Richardson.
One section in this work argues that Hawthorne's treatment of the "seduction theme" in Fanshawe consists of "absurdly conventional action rendered in the style of the female epigones of Richardson." That section, entitled "Achievement and Frustration" comes after the section "Prototypes and Early Adaptations." This work, adapted from an essay entitled "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in Huck Honey" argues that the American author is "forever beginning, saying for the first time" and that great American novelists tend to "avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and a woman" instead focusing on the "cheapjack" thrills of gothicism and the homoerotic fleeing of the white man from civilization to the arms of the "the natural man, the good companion" epitomized by figures like Queequeg and Nigger Jim. For 10 points identify this work of literary criticism that examines how the two title themes become intertwined in a certain form of American literature, a work of Leslie Fiedler.  
One section in this work argues that Hawthorne's treatment of the "seduction theme" in Fanshawe consists of "absurdly conventional action rendered in the style of the female epigones of Richardson.
Love and Death in the American Novel