Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

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:

vii, 209 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Updated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2007]

Summary:

An allegorical tale of passion, adultery, guilt, and social repression, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter introduces readers to Hester Prynne, America's first great fictional heroine. Hawthorne's story is a masterpiece of American literature, and this updated volume explores how the author powerfully conveys the theme of the influence of Puritanism on societal attitudes.

Contents:

Introduction / Harold Bloom

Sowing dragons' teeth : personal life and revolution in The scarlet letter / Joel Pfister

The a-politics of ambiguity / Sacvan Bercovitch

The scarlet letter and the language of history : past imperfect, present imperfect, future perfect? / Charles Swann

Hester's skepticism, Hawthorne's faith; or, what does a woman doubt? instituting the American romance tradition / Emily Miller Budick

"Apples of the thoughts and fancies" : nature as narrator in The scarlet letter / Janice B. Daniel

Hawthorne and the making of the middle class / Michael T. Gilmore

The dark labyrinth of mind : Hawthorne, Hester, and the ironies of racial mothering / Leland S. Person

The matter of form / Richard Kopley

From artifact to archetype / Margaret Reid.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0791094243

9780791094242

OCLC:

76064587