Description |
xiv, 161 pages ; 22 cm |
Series |
Wadsworth guides to literary study |
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Wadsworth guides to literary study.
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Contents |
The dark side of the truth / George E. Woodberry -- Sin and isolation / Gordon Roper -- The great chain of being / James W. Mathews -- The human dilemma / Richard H. Fogle -- The controlled division of sympathies / R.W.B. Lewis -- The mystery of moral growth / Roy R. Male -- Art, nature, science, and religion / Rudolphe von Abele -- Unearthly significance and human plausibility / Raymond W. Short -- Psychology and the moral imagination / Marius Bewley -- Saintly Hester / Theodore T. Munger -- Hester the transcendentalist / Stuart P. Sherman -- Hester versus Hawthorne / F.I. Carpenter -- Hester as tragic heroine / Mark Van Doren -- Hester the romantic / Darrel Abel -- Hester as a Puritan Fausta / William Bysshe Stein -- Hester and her society : the balanced guilt / Marius Bewley -- Dimmesdale : expiation as social duty / Rudolphe von Abele -- Dimmesdale : fugitive from wrath / Darrel Abel -- Dimmesdale and the God of love / Joseph Schwartz -- Chillingworth as Miltonic Satan / Darrel Abel -- Chillingworth as Faust and Mephistopheles / William Bysshe Stein -- The beautiful but poisonous flower / Julian Hawthorne -- Pearl and the Puritans / Chester E. Eisinger -- Pearl as regenerative symbol / Darrel Abel -- The character of flame / Anne Marie McNamaraa -- The microcosm of chaos / Barbara Garlitz -- The excesses of symbolism / Henry James -- The symbolic device of multiple choice / F.O. Matthiessen -- The nature of symbolic perception / Charles Feidelson, Jr. -- The organic and the mechanical / Roy R. Male -- The cemetery, the prison, and the rose / Hyatt H. Waggoner -- Hester's needlework : symbolism sotto voce / Sister M. Hilda Bonham -- The scaffold / Leland Schubert -- The four-part form / John C. Gerber -- Three epic quests / Hugh N. Maclean -- Fall and expulsion : the journey motif / Rudolphe von Abele |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages 152-161) |
Subject |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.
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Adultery in literature.
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Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Mothers and daughters in literature.
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Puritans 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 |
Gross, Seymour L., 1926-1988.
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LC no. |
60008658 |
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