"For its own sake, if it will do no more, the world should
throw open all its avenues to the passport of a woman's bleeding heart." This is
the only resolution to women's wrongs that Miles Coverdale, the narrator of
Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, can offer. Hawthorne's ambivalent response
to the ideology of woman's heart is more complex than Coverdale's but it remains
fundamentally conservative, like the response of another New England writer,
Rose Terry Cooke. Hawthorne and Cooke share ideological assumptions about gender
subverted by Mary Wilkins Freeman, a third New England writer whose works still
have not received the recognition they merit."For its own sake, if it will do no more, the world should
throw open all its avenues to the passport of a woman’s bleeding heart.” Voilà
la seule solution aux défauts des femmes que peut offrir Miles Coverdale, le
narrateur dans le roman The Blithedale Romance de Hawthorne. La réaction
ambivalente de Hawthorne à l’égard de la sentimentalité raisonnée des femmes est
plus complexe que celle de Coverdale mais elle demeure essentiellement
conservatrice, tout comme celle de Rose Terry Cooke, une autre auteure de la
Nouvelle-Angleterre. En fait, Hawthorne et Cooke partagent les mêmes
suppositions que réfute une troisième auteure de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, Mary
Wilkins, dont l’oeuvre n'a toujours pas reçu la reconnaissance qu’elle
mérite
