...change, and acquire dignity thereby. . . . Thus, therefore, the floor of our familiar room has become 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" (Scarlet Letter 44-45). It...

...embroidered scarlet "A " he has discovered into a romance under the influence of moonlight, which creates "a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world...and each imbue itself with the nature of the other." As many readers have insisted, this elaboration of moonlight and romance seeks to bring separate domains...

...space of Whitman's romance, the moonlit space of blurred and intermingled boundaries Hawthorne calls "a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world...meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other."3 Like Hawthorne's "neutral territory" or Poe's "border-ground," the "medium world" of Whitman's...

...secular world. The realm of writing is, to use Nathaniel Hawthome's words from The Scarlet Letter, a "neutral territory, somewhere between the real world...and fairyland, where the Actual and the Imaginary meet, and each imbues itself with the nature of the other."42 It is a place that is resistant to human...

...as a "romance writer" in The Scarlet Letter captures this generic distinction more spatially, as "a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world...and fairyland, where the Actual and the Imaginary meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other" (1980,45). It is precisely this generic crossing...

...Scarlet Letter captures this generic distinction more spatially in "The Custom House" chapter as "a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world...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...

...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...

...balance or reconciliation — what he describes in "The Custom-House" (in The Scarlet Letter) as "a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world...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 the...

...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...