"The source of the original text reprinted here is the first American edition: Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 "--Title page verso.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preface -- Chronology -- Chapter 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Burden of the Past and the Promise of His Own Era -- Chapter 2. Hawthorne, the Historical Romance, and Seventeenth-Century [MS1] New England -- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Annotations by Melissa McFarland Pennell.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This new annotated edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter explores such issues as the changing roles and views of women, the demand for conformity in the Puritan settlement, the fears of social/political threats often linked to gender, such as witchcraft and the Antinomian crisis, and colonial attitudes toward crime and punishment"--
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Historian's Scarlet letter.
International Standard Book Number
9781440846991
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece as social and cultural history
Parallel Title
Scarlet letter
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864-- Political and social views.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864., Scarlet letter.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864.
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Scarlet letter (Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literature and history-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Social values-- United States-- History-- 19th century.