Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter - Hardcover

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9780231121903: Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231121903 ISBN 13: 9780231121903

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2000

Gives an account and a sampling of varied interpretations of Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," encompassing moral and historical criticism, New Criticism, archetypal and myth criticism, psychoanalytical and feminist criticism, and linguistic and semiotic criticism.

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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.

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