Nathaniel Hawthorne The scarlet letter / edited by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, 1948-

Series:

Columbia critical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Mothers and daughters in literature.

Massachusetts--In literature.

Massachusetts.

Puritans in literature.

Adultery in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

207 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Scarlet letter

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]

Summary:

Introduces and sets in context the enormous range of critical arguments that have been generated by this enduring work. From the comments and reviews of Hawthorne's contemporaries through discussions of the novel by fellow artists such as Henry James and D.H. Lawrence, to radical re-readings of the postwar decades, the reader is given an invaluable guide to the critical progress of this key American text.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Contemporary Responses and Early Studies 11

Chapter 2 Formalist and Postformalist Approaches 24

Chapter 3 Historical Approaches 64

Chapter 4 Psychoanalytical Approaches 94

Chapter 5 Feminist Criticism 124

Chapter 6 Reader-Response, Phenomenological and Poststructuralist Approaches 155.

Notes:

"First published in the Icon Critical Guides series in 1999 by Icon Books Ltd."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199) and index.

ISBN:

0231121911

OCLC:

43567433