Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter
Record details
- OCLC: ocn688185046
- ISBN: 1604138742
- ISBN: 9781604138740
- ISBN: 1438135718 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781438135717 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (103 p.)
remote - Edition: New ed.
- Publisher: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- Jamie Barlowe on "Hester-Prynne-ism" -- Patricia Crain discusses allegory, adultery, and alphabetization -- David S. Reynolds on Hawthorne's revision of history -- Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet examine Hawthorne's dating errors -- Monika E. Elbert considers Hester's A -- Shari Benstock on the mother-child relationship in the novel -- Brook Thomas on Mr. Prynne -- Laura Doyle explores Hawthorne's two histories -- Jane F. Thrailkill on the doctor and the minister -- Gale Temple evaluates masculine ambivalence in The scarlet letter. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Puritans in literature Mothers and daughters in literature Adultery in literature Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- 1804-1864 |