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Why did Nathaniel Hawthorne consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist?

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Actually the term Romancer means a storyteller. It doesn't mean he liked a certain type of writing like another writer who considered himself a romancer was Mark Twain.

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because he enjoyed writing about romance more.
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