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Discusses an array of narratives that span the American literary tradition, tracing the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child.

Embroidering the Scarlet A

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      Publisher The University of Michigan Press
      Published 4/30/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780472072637
      978-0472072637
      ISBN-10 0472072633
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      Book Synopsis
      Discusses an array of narratives that span the American literary tradition, tracing the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child.

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