The Marble Faun and Landscape Politics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century America
The"picturesque landscape"in The Marble Faun is not static,but a dynamic carri-er of gender,class,and national identity amid the social modernization in the mid-nineteenth century America.The rural scenery showcases the formation and recognition process of the male middle-class identity,reflecting class fluidity in the interior and exterior landscape of the rural castle.Urban sceneries,featuring ruins and parks mirror the glory and decline of the empire while suggesting possibilities for social integration,thus,revealing the complexity of imperial colonial discourse in the context of modernity.From Hawthorne's transnational per-spective,the wilderness woodland can be imagined and reconstructed as a landscape form of American nationality,which symbolizes pioneering spirit and national sentiment.Through dy-namic depictions of rural,urban,and woodland landscapes,Hawthorne intricately weaved the political landscape of male middle-class identity,imperial colonial discourse,and American national sentiment in the process of American social transformation,endowing the landscape with liquid modernity and politics,thus presenting the author's unique aesthetic of picturesque landscapes and profound insight into the society's complex social realities.
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