| Description |
vii, 209 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Bloom's modern critical interpretations |
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Bloom's modern critical interpretations.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199) and index |
| Subject |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.
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Mothers and daughters 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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| SUBJECT |
Massachusetts http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007084 -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
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| Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| LC no. |
2006036787 |
| ISBN |
0791094243 hardcover |
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9780791094242 hardcover |
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