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Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Fiction Historical fiction History Novels (texts) Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Named Person: | Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel (1804-1864) Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne; Ross C Murfin |
ISBN: | 0312060246 9780312060244 0312035462 9780312035464 0333575601 9780333575604 |
OCLC Number: | 23034506 |
Description: | xi, 371 pages ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Part One. The complete text. The prison-door -- The market-place -- The recognition -- The interview -- Hester at her needle -- Pearl -- The governor's hall -- The elf-child and the minister -- The leech -- The leech and his patient -- The interior of a heart -- The minister's vigil -- Another view of Hestor -- Hester and the physician -- Hester and Pearl -- A forest walk -- The pastor and his parishioner -- A flood of sunshine -- The child at the brook-side -- The minister in a maze -- The New England holiday -- The procession -- The revelation of the scarlet letter -- Conclusion. Part Two. A case study in contemporary criticism -- Introduction: the critical background -- Psychoanalytic criticism and The scarlet letter -- Re-reading The letter: Hawthorne, the fetish, and the (family) romance / Joanne Feit Diehl -- Reader-response criticism and The scarlet letter -- Mrs. Hawthorne's headache: reading The scarlet letter / David Leverenz -- Feminist criticism and The scarlet letter -- The scarlet letter (a)dorée, or the female body embroidered / Shari Benstock -- Deconstruction and The scarlet letter -- Silence, family discourse, and fiction in The scarlet letter / Michael Ragussis -- The new historicism and The scarlet letter -- Hawthorne's a-morality of compromise / Sacvan Bercovitch. |
Series Title: | Case studies in contemporary criticism. |
Responsibility: | Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Ross C. Murfin. |
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Abstract:
This edition of Hawthorne's classic novel presents the Centenary edition as well as five critical essays that read "The Scarlet Letter" from five contemporary perspectives.
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