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Critical insights : The scarlet letter / editor, Brian Yothers, University of Texas at El Paso.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical Insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transcendentalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 248 pages).
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Other Title:
- Critical Insights
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, Incorporated, [2018]
- Summary:
- Examines how The Scarlet Letter brings together many vital strands in American literature and culture. Puritanism and the rise of religious liberalism; philosophical Romanticism and Transcendentalism; the role of women and gender; the nature of justice and democratic governance; and the relationship between the United States and the wider world.
- Contents:
- About this volume ; On The scarlet letter ; Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne Brian Yothers
- The scarlet letter casts its shadow Samuel Coale
- Hawthorne's The scarlet Letter : one passage from multiple perspectives Robert C. Evans
- "Of connection across space and time" : The scarlet letter and Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth Anupama Arora
- Puritans and Transcendentalists : The scarlet letter in New England culture Brian Yothers
- "Absolutely American" : Hawthorne's postcolonial and neocolonial masterplot Jane Zwart
- Autobiography and romance in Hawthorne's "The custom-house" : literary creation and the second story John Wenke
- Hawthorne's removal from the Salem Custom House and the thematics of public exposure in The scarlet letter Jonathan A. Cook
- Dark romanticism, American asceticism : the transatlantic contexts of The scarlet letter Brad Bannon
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and the form of American romance Casey R. Pratt
- Discovering Hester Prynne : The scarlet letter and the American renaissance Christopher N. Phillips
- Popular fiction and The scarlet letter Nancy F. Sweet
- The scarlet letter as utopian/dystopian fiction Steven Petersheim
- The scarlet letter and film adaptation : feminism and fidelity David Greven.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781682176894
- 1682176894
- OCLC:
- 1105608969
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