complete, authoritative text with biographical background and critical history plus essays from five contemporary critical perspectives with introductions and bibliographies /
Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Ross C. Murfin.
Boston :
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press,
c1991.
xi, 371 p. ;
22 cm.
Case studies in contemporary criticism
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864., Scarlet letter.
Adultery, Fiction.
Clergy, Fiction.
Illegitimate children, Fiction.
Married women, Fiction.
Puritans, Fiction.
Revenge, Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction.
Women immigrants, Fiction.
Boston (Mass.), History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Fiction.