"The anti-rhetoric of Hawthorne, which defends him against sentimentality, also prevents him from rendering sensuality, dissolving all ecstasies in ironies."
Leslie Fiedler, Love and Death in the American Novel (1960)
Ecstasy as sediment, reserve, reaction; ecstasy as experience, unmoored.
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