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The title is a novel’s subject in which the text takes the form of a sentence,
modifying that subject. In a letter to Edwin Percy Whipple of May 2, 1852,
Hawthorne asks Colonel E.P. Whipple to help him choose from amongst many
titles.
“I wish, at least, you would help me to choose a name. I have put
‘Hollingsworth,’ on the title-page, but that is not irrevocable; although, I
think, the best that has occurred to me—as presenting the original figure
about which the rest of the book clustered itself.
Here are others—“Blithedale,”—well enough, but with no positive
merit or suitability. “Miles Coverdale’s Three Friends”;—this title
comprehends the book, but rather clumsily. “The Veiled Lady”—too
melodramatic; and, besides, I do not wish to give prominence to that
feature of the Romance. “Priscilla”—she is such a shrinking damsel that it
seems hardly fair to thrust her into the vanguard and make her the
standard-bearer. “The Blithedale Romance”—that would do, in lack of a
better. “The Arcadian Summer”—not a taking title. “Zenobia”—Mr. Ware
has anticipated me in this. In short, I can think of nothing that exactly suits
the case. (Letters 536–37)”
Describe how the book would be read differently with one of those titles. For this
essay, you might want to refer to Hawthorne stories with similar characters. You
may want to look into the relation of prison and utopia. “Earth’s Holocaust” and “Young Goodman Brown” might be worthwhile, too.
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