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The historian's Scarlet letter : reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece as social and cultural history / edited by Melissa McFarland Pennell.
Van Pelt Library PS1868.A2 P46 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Historian's annotated classics
- The historian's annotated classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Social and political views.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
- Social values--United States--History--19th century.
- Social values.
- Public opinion.
- History.
- United States--Public opinion--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Literature and history--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and history.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 261 pages ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Scarlet letter
- Reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece as social and cultural history
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2018]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.
- Pennell, Melissa McFarland. Historian's Scarlet letter.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Historian's Scarlet letter.
- ISBN:
- 9781440846984
- 1440846987
- 9781440847004
- 1440847002
- OCLC:
- 1019834946
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