Miles Coverdale

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Miles Coverdale is the introspective, often unreliable narrator of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The Blithedale Romance," whose observations frame the story’s exploration of utopian ideals and human psychology.

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Miles Coverdale canonical 23

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character ⓘ
literary narrator ⓘ
appearsIn The Blithedale Romance ⓘ
appearsInGenre American Romantic novel ⓘ
associatedPlaceInFiction Blithedale community ⓘ
associatedWithTheme failure of utopian experiments ⓘ
gender relations ⓘ
human psychology ⓘ
idealism versus reality ⓘ
utopian communities ⓘ
countryOfOriginInFiction United States ⓘ
creator Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ
fictionalUniverse The Blithedale Romance ⓘ
languageOfWork English ⓘ
literaryFunction embodies tension between detachment and involvement ⓘ
mediates reader’s access to events ⓘ
narrativeCharacteristic introspective ⓘ
often unreliable ⓘ
narrativeRole first-person narrator ⓘ
frame narrator ⓘ
narrativeTechnique psychological observation ⓘ
retrospective narration ⓘ
occupation poet ⓘ
perspectiveOnCommunity skeptical participant ⓘ
relationshipWithCharacter friend of Hollingsworth ⓘ
observer of Priscilla ⓘ
observer of Zenobia ⓘ
roleInWork narrator of The Blithedale Romance ⓘ
timePeriodInFiction 19th century ⓘ
workPublicationYear 1852 ⓘ

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The Blithedale Romance → mainCharacter → Miles Coverdale ⓘ
Hollingsworth → affects → Miles Coverdale ⓘ
Zenobia → hasRelationshipWith → Miles Coverdale ⓘ
Chapter III: A Knot of Dreamers → narrator → Miles Coverdale ⓘ
Chapter IV: The Supper-Table → narrator → Miles Coverdale ⓘ
Chapter XI: The Wood-Path → narrator → Miles Coverdale ⓘ
Chapter XV: A Crisis → narrator → Miles Coverdale ⓘ
Chapter XV: A Crisis → featuresCharacter → Miles Coverdale ⓘ
Chapter XVI: Leave-Takings → narrator → Miles Coverdale ⓘ
Chapter XXX: Conclusion → featuresNarrator → Miles Coverdale ⓘ