| Description |
viii, 222 pages ; 25 cm. |
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Critical essays on American literature |
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Critical essays on American literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / David B. Kesterson -- Posthumous papers of a decapitated surveyor : The Scarlet Letter in the Salem press / C.E. Frazer Clark, Jr. -- [A "Psychological romance"] / Evert A. Duyckinck -- [The Gothic, the supernatural, the imagination] / George Ripley -- [A true artist's certainty of touch and expression] / Edwin Percy Whipple -- [A "Powerful but painful story"] / Henry Chorley -- [The magic power of Hawthorne's style] / Ann Abbott -- [An unfit subject for literature] / Orestes Brownson -- [A "Compromise of ... literary character] / Arthur Cleveland Coxe -- [The Scarlet Letter] / Henry James, Jr.-- Hawthorne's Hester Prynne / William Dean Howells -- [Concealment in The Scarlet Letter] / William Cary Brownell -- Scarlet a minus / Frederic I. Carpenter -- Form and content in The Scarlet Letter / John C. Gerber -- The tongue of flame : The Scarlet Letter / Roy R. Male -- The ruined wall / Frederick C. Crews -- Dimmesdale's ultimate sermon / Terence Martin -- [Isolation and interdependence as structure in The Scarlet Letter] / Arne I. Axelsson -- [The major phase I, 1850 : The Scarlet Letter] / Nina Baym -- Dark light on the letter / Hyatt H. Waggoner -- The obliquity of signs : The Scarlet Letter / Millicent Bell -- "Again a literary man" : vocation and The Scarlet Letter / Rita K. Gollin -- Hawthorne, Upham, and The Scarlet Letter / Thomas Woodson -- Pearl and Hester : a lacanian reading / James M. Mellard -- "Take shame" and "Be true" : Hawthorne and his characters in The Scarlet Letter / Richard D. Rust. |
| Subject |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.
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Mothers and daughters in literature.
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Massachusetts -- In literature.
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Puritans in literature.
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Adultery in literature.
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Women in literature.
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The scarlet letter (Hawthorne)
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| Added Author |
Kesterson, David B. (David Bert), 1938-2019
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| ISBN |
0816188831 alkaline paper |
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