...in The Scarlet Letter captures this generic distinction more spatially in "The Custom House" chapter as "a neutral territory, somewhere between the real...and fairyland, where the Actual and the Imaginary meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other" (5). It is precisely this generic crossing...

...the supernatural is made to seem part of everyday reality: (T)he floor of our familiarroom has become a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world...and each imbue itself with the nature of the other. Ghosts might enter here without affrighting us. (1962:36) This 'neutral territory, somewhere between...

...world of balance or reconciliation — what he describes in "The Custom-House" (in The Scarlet Letter) as "a neutral territory, somewhere between the real...and each imbue itself with the nature of the other" (36). James, on the other hand, characterizes romance in terms of a radical lack of integration between...

...as much imaginary as real. "Thus," Hawthorne concludes, "the floor of our familiar room has become a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world...and each imbue itself with the nature of the other" (35-36). As I have said, this seems to be a pretty safe account of romance, apparently reconciling...

...seems to be a misguided auempt at universality. Hawthome's "The Custom House" locates the romance in "a neutral territory. somewhere between the real world...and each imbue itself with the nature of the other." So far as Percy loses touch with the actual in his fiction. just so far is his power lessened. Nevertheless....

...remoteness. . . . Thus, therefore, the floor of our familiar room has become a neutral territory . . . where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other. (35-36) The maternal-domestic world of "small" and "trifling" things, especially those belonging to...

...world is 'now invested with a quality of strangeness and remoteness'; the familiar room 'has become a neutral territory somewhere between the real world...fairyland, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet . . . Ghosts might enter here.' These are the conditions where a man can 'dream strange things, and...

...are the visible expression of Transcendentalism and the German fairy tales. For Hawthorne, they are "neutral territory . . . somewhere between the real...fairy-land," where "the actual and the imaginary may . . . each imbue itself with the nature of the other."16 4. Warm Lights: Sunrise and Sunset. By contrast,...

..."Custom-House" preface to The Scarlet Letter. "Romance is there defined, in another often quoted passage, as "a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairyland, where the Actual and Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other" (p. 36). This sounds like a...

...seems to be a misguided attempt at universality. Hawthorne's "The Custom House" locates the romance in "a neutral territory. somewhere between the real world and fairy-land. where the Actual and the lmaginary may meet. and each imbue itself with the nature of the other." So far as Percy loses touch...