complete, authoritative text with biographical background and critical history plus essays from five contemporary critical perspectives with introductions and bibliographies /
First Statement of Responsibility
Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Ross C. Murfin.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boston :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c1991.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 371 p. ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Case studies in contemporary criticism
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864., Scarlet letter.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Adultery, Fiction.
Clergy, Fiction.
Illegitimate children, Fiction.
Married women, Fiction.
Puritans, Fiction.
Revenge, Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction.
Women immigrants, Fiction.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Boston (Mass.), History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Fiction.