Problem
In his Preface of "The House of the Seven Gables," Hawthorne distinguishes between a "Romance" and a "Novel," based not only on the degree of "fidelity" to actual events but also on its "attempt to connect a by-gone time" with the very Present that is flitting away from us."
1. Does his distinction between "Romance" (or "Tale" or "Legend") and "Novel" hold water? How does it apply to this book?
2. Apply these distinctions to Sedgwick's Hope Leslie: is it a "Romance" or a "Novel"? How can we tell? How does this affect our reading of it?