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Harvard University Press The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisHawthorne’s greatest romance is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his Introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that it is also a serious historical novel. This edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Scarlet Letter in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.Table of Contents* Introduction to The Scarlet Letter * A Preface to the Text * Textual Introduction: The Scarlet Letter * Preface to the Second Edition * The Custom-House-Introductory * The Prison-Door * The Market-Place * The Recognition * The Interview * Hester at Her Needle * Pearl * The Governor's Hall * The Elf-Child and the Minister * The Leech * The Leech and His Patient * The Interior of a Heart * The Minister's Vigil * Another View of Hester * Hester and the Physician * Hester and Pearl * A Forest Walk * The Pastor and His Parishioner * A Flood of Sunshine * The Child at the Brook-Side * The Minister in a Maze * The New England Holiday * The Procession * The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter * Conclusion * Variants in the First Edition * Variants in the Second Edition * Editorial Emendations in the Copy-Text * Textual Notes * Historical Collation * Word-Division * Special Collation List: Variants between the First and Second Editions * Appendix to the Third Printing
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Alma Books Ltd The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisHaving been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself and her illegitimate child in the hostile environment of seventeenth-century Puritan Boston. Nathaniel Hawthorne's tense narrative astonished readers with its unparalleled psychological depth when it first appeared, and the novel now stands as one of America's literary landmarks.Trade ReviewOne of the greatest allegories in all literature. -- D.H. Lawrence The books of Hawthorne... should be sold by the hundred thousand, and read by the million; and admired by everyone who is capable of admiration. -- Herman Melville We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth. -- Edgar Allan Poe The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country. -- Henry James
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Graphic Arts Books The Scarlet Letter
Book Synopsis“A perfect work of the American imagination.”-D.H Lawrence “The Scarlet Letter is so terrible in its pictures of diseased human nature as to produce most questionable delights. The reader’s interest never flags for a moment…Hawthorne, when you have studied him, will be very precious to you. He will have plunged you into melancholy, he will have overshadowed you with black forebodings, he will almost have crushed you with imaginary sorrows; but he will have enabled you to feel yourself an inch taller during the process.”-Anthony Trollope Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a razor-sharp novel set in a seventeen-century puritan community. The book examines the contradictions of good and evil, what is apparent and what is hidden, and the power of redemption. After Hester Prynne, the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter, has a child out of wedlock, she is branded with the scarlet letter “A” on her dress. Shunned in her community as she refused to identify the father of her child, Hester lives with in a small cottage with her daughter, Pearl. Roger Chillingworth, an elderly physician, joins the community, and unbeknownst to all except for Hester, he is her long-departed husband, who was presumed to be dead. In his absence, Hester had an affair and subsequently gave birth to a child. Covertly aiming for revenge on the father of the child, Chillingworth descends on Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the young minister who he suspects in the illicit affair. Within the remarkable character of Hester, Hawthorne examines female independence and the complexities of sin. With a surprising emotional pitch and powerful insights into the human condition, this is one of America’s greatest novels. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Scarlet Letter is both modern and readable.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne''Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss''Fiercely romantic and hugely influential, The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet ''A'' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl. In their small, Puritan village, Hester and her daughter struggle to survive, but in this searing study of the tension between private and public existence, Hester Prynne''s inner strength and quiet dignity means she has frequently been seen as one of the first great heroines of American fiction.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Pan Macmillan The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisRoger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society determined to condemn them both.A smash hit in its day, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the gripping tale of three New England settlers at odds with the seventeenth-century Puritan society in which they live, and remains one of literature's most evocative portraits of a love triangle.This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Scarlet Letter features an afterword by broadcaster Jonty Claypole.
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Broadview Press Ltd The Scarlet Letter: A Romance
Book SynopsisHawthorne's story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet "A" as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, Puritanism, and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature.This Broadview edition contains a selection of historical documents that include Hawthorne's writings on Puritanism, the historical sources of the story, and contemporary reviews of the novel. New to the second edition are an updated critical introduction and bibliography and, in the appendices, additional writings by Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry James, and William Dean Howells.Trade Review“Anyone interested in how novels refract history will be enriched by the Broadview edition of The Scarlet Letter. The valuable introduction and extensive archival material will give readers a great foundation for using Hawthorne’s historicist methodology as a model for discussing the complexities of history and storytelling not only for Hawthorne but for contemporary readers as well.” — Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago“John Stephen Martin’s meticulously prepared edition of The Scarlet Letter offers both students and general readers the most comprehensive introduction to Hawthorne’s life and work currently available in one volume. With its historical contextualization, enormously helpful annotations, and judicious assessment of Hawthorne’s greatest work, it establishes itself as the single best guide to this great American masterpiece.” — Joel Porte, Cornell University“This edition is the most effective teaching tool for Hawthorne’s text that I know. Contained within a single volume, students have everything that is necessary for a rich understanding of one of the most important moments in American literary history. Especially donative are the substantial contextualizations provided here—literary, social, and historical—and in turn, these contextualizations ground the principal issues with which Hawthorne’s romance engages. Supplementary to all this is the extensive bibliography, far-ranging and comprehensive. This edition is easily the most comprehensive introduction to the work that is currently available.” — Ian Bell, Keele UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionNathaniel Hawthorne: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Scarlet Letter, A RomanceAppendix A: Hawthorne and Brook Farm (1841)Appendix B: Hawthorne at Concord (1842–1845): Thoreau, Emerson, Fuller, and TranscendentalismAppendix C: The Controversy of “The Custom-House” IntroductionAppendix D: Hawthorne’s Preface to the Second EditionAppendix E: Hawthorne’s Earlier Writings on Puritan History From “Endicott and the Red Cross” (1838) From “Main-street” (1849) From “The Celestial Rail-road” (1843) Appendix F: Hawthorne’s American NotebooksAppendix G: Hawthorne’s Ironic VisionAppendix H: The Development of The Scarlet Letter into a RomanceAppendix I: Imagination and “the Neutral Ground” of MoonlightAppendix J: Historical Sources for The Scarlet LetterAppendix K: Contemporary Reviews of The Scarlet Letter From Anon.,“The New Romance,” Boston Transcript (15 March 1850) From Anon., Salem Register (21 March 1850) From Evert A. Duyckinck, “Nathaniel Hawthorne,” The Literary World (30 March 1850) From George Ripley, New York Tribune Supplement (1 April 1850) From E.P. Whipple, Graham’s Magazine (May 1850) From Henry F. Chorley, Athenæum (June 1850) From Anne W. Abbott, North American Review (July 1850) From George Bailey Loring, Massachusetts Quarterly Review (September 1850) From Orestes Brownson, Brownson’s Quarterly Review (October 1850) From Arthur Cleveland Coxe, “The Writings of Hawthorne,” Church Review (January 1851) From Henry James, Hawthorne (1879) From William Dean Howells, Heroines of Fiction (1901) Appendix L: IllustrationsWorks Cited and Recommended Readings
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Union Square & Co. The Scarlet Letter Barnes Noble Collectible
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical study of guilt and sin has since been lauded as the most important work of fiction by its distinguished author - and a landmark of American literature.
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LEGARE STREET PR Nathaniel Hawthornes Scarlet Letter Dramatized. A Play in Five Acts
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Penguin Publishing Group Selected Tales and Sketches Classics S
Book SynopsisThe short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of the Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Illustrations xi Introduction 1 1 Under the Spell of Hawthorne 6 2 The Formative Years (1804–1825) 14 3 Fanshawe: A Tale (1828) 25 4 The Dark Years (1825–1837) 35 5 A Voice Refined (1837–1842) 51 6 The Middle Years (1842–1849) 63 7 Nathaniel and Sophia (1837–1860) 80 8 The Scarlet Letter (1850) 91 9 Hawthorne and Melville (1850–1860) 106 10 The House of the Seven Gables (1851) 118 11 The Blithedale Romance (1852) 131 12 The Marble Faun (1853–1860) 144 13 The Final Years (1860–1864) 163 Conclusion 183 References 189 Index 197
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Karma The House of the Seven Gables
Book SynopsisAlex Katz illustrates Hawthorne’s classic gothic tale of Puritan New England While enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union in 1948, Alex Katz (born 1927) created nine ink drawings to accompany Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gothic romance, The House of the Seven Gables. Published a century earlier, in 1851, Hawthorne’s classic novel is a solemn study of greed, guilt and atonement under the Puritan moral code of 19th-century New England, inspired by the curse pronounced on Hawthorne's own family by a condemned woman during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) was one of the most influential American writers of the 19th century, known for his darkly romantic stories and novels such as The Scarlet Letter. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and belonged to a prominent circle of New England–based writers and philosophers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott. Alex Katz (born 1927) is a New York–based artist known for his large-scale Pop-inspired canvases of two-dimensional figures set against monochrome backgrounds. For over seven decades, his work has been the subject of hundreds of solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
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Arcturus Publishing Classical Mythology
Book SynopsisNathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Noted for the dark romanticism of his tales, he is best known for works such as The Scarlet Letter and short story collections such as Twice-Told Tales.Walter Crane (1845-1915) was a British artist who became renowned for his work during the Arts and Crafts Movement and especially for his illustrations for children's books. A student of the artist and critic John Ruskin, he was also influenced by artists such as William Morris. As well as his work for children's titles, he also wrote poetry and produced designs for stained-glass windows.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Haunted Minds and Ambiguous Approaches
Book SynopsisThe process of Hawthorne's scholarly canonization, and the ongoing critical and cultural discourse on his works. Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the "power of blackness" in his fiction - the complex moral grappling with sin and guilt. By the 1850s, Hawthorne had already been accepted into the American canon, and since then, his works - especially The Scarlet Letter -- have remained ubiquitous in American culture. Along with this has come an explosion of Hawthorne criticism, from New Criticism, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies to queer theory, feminist scholarship, and transatlantic criticism, that shows no signs of slowing. This book charts Hawthorne's canonization and the ongoing critical discourse, drawing on two senses of "entanglement." First the sense from quantum physics, which allows us to see what were once seen as strict dualisms in Hawthorne as more complex relations where the poles of the would-be dualities play off of and affect each other; second, the sense of critics being tangled up in, caught up in, Hawthorne the man and his work and in previous critics' views of him. Charting the course of Hawthorne criticism as well as his place in popular culture, this book sheds light also on the culture in which his reception has occurred. Samuel Chase Coale is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.Trade Review[A] useful, interesting, and humane book . . . there is much that general readers and undergraduates may find valuable . . . Coale has permitted us a fleeting glimpse at least of his conception of our author's veiled and ghostly visage -- and . . . that is no small accomplishment. * RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY *Ultimately The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrates that Hawthorne's enduring power lies in his ability to create fiction that evades capture. Fashions in literary theory come and go -- indeed, they are often successfully applied to Hawthorne's writings -- but Coale effectively conveys that there is an elusive quality to Hawthorne's work which makes it at once endlessly fascinating and forever worthy of investigation. * THE YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES *[A] highly elaborate, thorough and illuminating study of Hawthorne criticism. . . . [O]ffers an excellent impression of the abundance and diversity of scholarly approaches to Hawthorne and an enlightening reflection of their theoretical foundations and practical applications. * ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Entanglements The Legacy of The Scarlet Letter: Hawthorne inContemporary Culture Hawthorne as Nineteenth-Century Morbid Genius Biographical and Critical Veils in the Nineteenth Century Biographical Visions of the Twentieth Century Entangled Polarities: The New Criticism Doubting Dualisms: The Strategies of Hawthorne'sRomance Ideological Contexts: Deconstruction, Feminism,the New Historicism, Race, and Entanglement Works Cited Index
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University of Massachusetts Press Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early
Book SynopsisAntebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became increasingly visible in the popular culture and literature of the era, appearing openly in advertisements, popular fiction, and newspaper reports. One figure would come to dominate national headlines from the 1840s onward: Madame Restell. Facing public condemnation and mob attacks at her home for her dogged support of women's reproductive rights, Restell built an empire selling her powders, pills, and services along the Eastern Seaboard.Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne undoubtedly knew of Restell's work and would go on to depict the incompatibility of abortion and nationalism in their writings. Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe's Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance, these authors consider new concepts around race, reproduction, and American exceptionalism. Dana Medoro demonstrates that their work can be usefully read in the context of debates on fetal life and personhood that circulated in the era.
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University of Massachusetts Press Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early
Book SynopsisAntebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became increasingly visible in the popular culture and literature of the era, appearing openly in advertisements, popular fiction, and newspaper reports. One figure would come to dominate national headlines from the 1840s onward: Madame Restell. Facing public condemnation and mob attacks at her home for her dogged support of women's reproductive rights, Restell built an empire selling her powders, pills, and services along the Eastern Seaboard.Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne undoubtedly knew of Restell's work and would go on to depict the incompatibility of abortion and nationalism in their writings. Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe's Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance, these authors consider new concepts around race, reproduction, and American exceptionalism. Dana Medoro demonstrates that their work can be usefully read in the context of debates on fetal life and personhood that circulated in the era.
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Random House USA Inc The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisIntroduction by Kathryn Harrison Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a heroine ahead of her time. As Kathryn Harrison points out in her Introduction, Hester is “the herald of the modern heroine.” Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide
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LIWI Literatur- und Wissenschaftsverlag Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter English Edition
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Graphic Arts Books The Scarlet Letter
Book Synopsis“A perfect work of the American imagination.”-D.H Lawrence “The Scarlet Letter is so terrible in its pictures of diseased human nature as to produce most questionable delights. The reader’s interest never flags for a moment…Hawthorne, when you have studied him, will be very precious to you. He will have plunged you into melancholy, he will have overshadowed you with black forebodings, he will almost have crushed you with imaginary sorrows; but he will have enabled you to feel yourself an inch taller during the process.”-Anthony Trollope Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a razor-sharp novel set in a seventeen-century puritan community. The book examines the contradictions of good and evil, what is apparent and what is hidden, and the power of redemption. After Hester Prynne, the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter, has a child out of wedlock, she is branded with the scarlet letter “A” on her dress. Shunned in her community as she refused to identify the father of her child, Hester lives with in a small cottage with her daughter, Pearl. Roger Chillingworth, an elderly physician, joins the community, and unbeknownst to all except for Hester, he is her long-departed husband, who was presumed to be dead. In his absence, Hester had an affair and subsequently gave birth to a child. Covertly aiming for revenge on the father of the child, Chillingworth descends on Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the young minister who he suspects in the illicit affair. Within the remarkable character of Hester, Hawthorne examines female independence and the complexities of sin. With a surprising emotional pitch and powerful insights into the human condition, this is one of America’s greatest novels. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Scarlet Letter is both modern and readable.
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Editorial Maxtor The scarlet letter
Book Synopsis?A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes...?The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.In June 1642, in the Puritan town of Boston, a crowd gathers to witness the punishment of Hester Prynne, a young woman found guilty of adultery. She is required to wear a scarlet "A" ("A" standing for adulterer) on her dress to shame her. She must stand on the scaffold for three hours, to be exposed to public humiliation.
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LIWI Literatur- und Wissenschaftsverlag Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter English Edition
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Legare Street Press The Scarlet Letter a Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Skyhorse Publishing The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisHandsome, readable, affordable, a new edition of one of the great works of American literature.The magnum opus of revered writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter is arguably one of the greatest novels written during the nineteenth century. It is the story of Hester Prynne—a young woman accused of, tried for, and publicly punished for adultery. Set during the seventeenth century in Boston, she receives harsh ridicule from the radical Puritan community for her actions. From the affair she conceives a child and struggles to rebuild her life and her reputation. Throughout the book Hawthorne explores controversial themes of sexuality, romance, guilt, shame, infidelity—all of which are still pertinent topics more than 150 years after its initial publication.The Scarlet Letter is a timeless story of morality, legality, struggle, and shame in a world that was so intolerant of the very things that make us human.The Clydesdale Classics series features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our history through the words of the exceptional few.
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Spark Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The
Book SynopsisWhen an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.
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Columbia University Press Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Essays
Book SynopsisWith the publication of "The Scarlet Letter" in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne achieved not only critical recognition in his native New England, but also an undisputed place amongst the newly emerging ranks of great American writers. This guide introduces and sets in context, the range of critical arguments that have been generated by this work.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Contemporary Responses and Early Studies 2. Formalist and Postformalist Approaches 3. Historical Approaches 4. Psychoanalytical Approaches 5. Feminist Criticism 6. Reader-Response, Phenomenological and Poststructuralist Approaches Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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Penguin Books Ltd The Scarlet Letter Penguin Classics Deluxe
Book SynopsisSet in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals the author's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves.Trade Review"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." --Malcolm Cowley
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Peter Lang AG The Scarlet Letter. New Critical Essays
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of critical essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) – one of the most influential American works of fiction. The presented interpretations deal not only with the principal characters of the novel, but also with «The Custom-House», the Spanish sailors, the Book of Revelations, and the artist as adulterer. The critical tools employed include allegory, the Biedermeier, hermeneutical exposition, semiosis of the infans, and triangular desire. This publication is dedicated to the memory of Andrzej Kopcewicz (1934-2007), the first professor ordinarius of American literature in the history of English studies in Poland, on the tenth anniversary of his death.Table of ContentsJoseph Kuhn – The children of Pearl: The Scarlet Letter in the criticism and fiction of Henry James – Marek Paryż – Resettlement, mobility and modernity in The Scarlet Letter – Janusz Semrau – From the Spanish Main to the Book of Revelation; or, Another view of Hester – Pawel Stachura – The Custom-House as a Biedermeier text – Jørgen Veisland – The artist as adulterer
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Scarecrow Press Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen
Book SynopsisConsidered one of the greatest of American authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) created a memorable body of literature, which included the novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables, as well as a wealth of short stories. In Adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Screen: Forging New Worlds, Laurence Raw demonstrates how filmmakers have turned to Hawthorne to comment on the nation''s past, present, and future. Raw shows how some filmmakers have tackled the difficulty of Hawthorne''s material by treating him strictly as a writer whose work was firmly situated in American life of the mid-nineteenth century. Raw also examines how directors have used Hawthorne''s stories to comment on various aspects of twentieth century American life. This device is particularly evident in the many versions of The Scarlet Letter, such as the 1950 television version broadcast two months after Senator Joseph McCarthy''s speech about State Department employees who were card-carrying members of tTrade ReviewLaurence Raw has delved into the many film manifestations of Hawthorne's writings with a clear headed and cogent view, analyzing both where they have succeeded or have not. The great American author has shown his stories to have a relevance and timelessness that have transcended the printed medium. The different takes on the Scarlet Letter are fascinating to read about, as different mores and viewpoints of the passing decades put their own spin on Hawthorne's most famous novel. Of particular interest is the way Hawthorne's writings have been brought to filmic life; as conventional drama, animation, short film, and even broad farce. Mr. Raw's look into the films based on Hawthorne's writings is a must both for film fans and Hawthorne fans. -- Michael Legge, Director of Loons
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Peter Lang AG New Essays on the Short Stories of Nathaniel
Book SynopsisNathaniel Hawthorne’s status as an artist rests as much on The Scarlet Letter as on his short fictions. It is both telling and appropriate that academic research in the short story should be dated to Mary Rohrberger’s study Hawthorne and the Modern Short Story, published in 1966. The present volume adds to this discourse with contributions by Paulina Ambroży, Katarzyna Kuczma, Joseph Kuhn, David Malcolm, Marek Paryż, Janusz Semrau, Paweł Stachura, and Marek Wilczyński. Represented here are some of the most widely-known stories, such as «My Kinsman, Major Molineux», «Wakefield», «Roger Malvin’s Burial», «Ethan Brand», «The Great Stone Face», and some of the less widely-known ones, such as «Legends of the Province-House», «The Haunted Mind», «The Threefold Destiny», «Foot-prints on the Sea-shore». The individual essays discuss Hawthorne’s texts in quasi-generic terms, through some persistent American themes and motifs, as well as for their aesthetic, philosophical, and existential meanings. The readings draw ideological and theoretical support from the thought of Emerson, Hegel, Trilling, de Certeau, Freud, Heidegger, Lacan, and Derrida.Table of ContentsContent: Paweł Stachura: Drawing under the radar: «Earth’s Holocaust» and truth in painting – Paulina Ambroży: On the unconcealedness of the sketch in «The Prophetic Pictures» – Marek Paryż: Roger Malvin’s corpse – Marek Wilczyński: Between memory and tradition; or, «Legends of the Province-House» – Joseph Kuhn: The Robin Molineux of Lionel Trilling – Janusz Semrau: What if «Wakefield» were (about) a woman? – Katarzyna Kuczma: Hawthorne’s natural order of self-reflexivity – David Malcolm: Is there coherence and cohesion in the 1837 volume of Twice-told tales?
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Lexington Books Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature
Book SynopsisA friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world. This book seeks to redress this omission by elucidating the sense of environmentality that emanates from Hawthorne's romances and other writings. Hawthorne's sense of kinship with the natural world runs deep in his work, particularly when his fiction is examined alongside his voluminous notebooks. Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature also contributes to the growing scholarly work aiming to illuminate Hawthorne as a writer deeply engaged in the issues of his day, particularly involving the environment, rather than an author simply interested in reinterpreting colonial history. Today's readers stand to gain a rich new understanding of Hawthorne by reassessing Hawthorne's attitude toward the natural world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Nature of Hawthorne’s Pastoral Romances Chapter One Investigating Hawthorne’s Nonfiction Nature Writing Chapter Two Observing “the Laboratory of Nature” in Hawthorne’s Short Fiction Chapter Three Reading Nature and the Human Body in The Scarlet Letter Chapter Four Mapping Blood and Biology in The House of the Seven Gables Chapter Five Et in Arcadia Ego: Adaptation and Natural Limits in The Blithedale Romance Chapter Six Exploring the Ruins of the Human Animal in The Marble Faun Chapter Seven Postscript: Hawthorne’s Unfinished Romances Bibliography About the Author
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Lexington Books Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature
Book SynopsisA friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world. This book seeks to redress this omission by elucidating the sense of environmentality that emanates from Hawthorne's romances and other writings. Hawthorne's sense of kinship with the natural world runs deep in his work, particularly when his fiction is examined alongside his voluminous notebooks. Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature also contributes to the growing scholarly work aiming to illuminate Hawthorne as a writer deeply engaged in the issues of his day, particularly involving the environment, rather than an author simply interested in reinterpreting colonial history. Today's readers stand to gain a rich new understanding of Hawthorne by reassessing Hawthorne's attitude toward the natural world.Trade ReviewA much-needed and outstanding study of Hawthorne’s preoccupation with Nature, a neglected theme in Hawthorne studies. Steven Petersheim offers a comprehensive view of Hawthorne’s relationship to nature in his journals, correspondence, short fiction, travel sketches, and novels. With great verve, Petersheim describes Hawthorne’s ongoing fascination with nature from his college days onwards through his travels to Europe and shows unwitting similarities but ofttimes ruptures with his Transcendentalist neighbors in Concord in their assessment of nature. An indispensable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century American literature and environmental studies. -- Monika Elbert, Prof. of English, Montclair State UniversityRethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature is a very welcome and long-needed contribution to ecocriticism and nineteenth-century American literary studies, unsettling the common (mis)conception of Hawthorne as the isolated writer and revealing him instead as a man deeply engaged with the natural world around him. In this first book-length ecocritical study of Hawthorne’s work, Petersheim brings insightful and wide-ranging analyses to the breadth of Hawthorne’s career, including not just the well-known stories and popular romances, but also his nonfiction writings, including his personal notebooks, and the unfinished late romances. Petersheim does an excellent job situating Hawthorne’s writing in its historical contexts, all the while bringing a fresh theoretical eye to many of these much studied works. -- Tom J. Hillard, Boise State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Nature of Hawthorne’s Pastoral Romances Chapter OneInvestigating Hawthorne’s Nonfiction Nature Writing Chapter TwoObserving “the Laboratory of Nature” in Hawthorne’s Short Fiction Chapter ThreeReading Nature and the Human Body in The Scarlet LetterChapter FourMapping Blood and Biology in The House of the Seven GablesChapter FiveEt in Arcadia Ego: Adaptation and Natural Limits in The Blithedale RomanceChapter SixExploring the Ruins of the Human Animal in The Marble FaunChapter SevenPostscript: Hawthorne’s Unfinished Romances BibliographyAbout the Author
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Hawthorne in Concord
Book SynopsisOn his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home, the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. There, enriched by friendships with Thoreau and Emerson, he enjoyed an idyllic time. But three years later, unable to make enough money from his writing, he returned ingloriously, with his wife and infant daughter, to live in his mother''s home in Salem.In 1853 Hawthorne moved back to Concord, now the renowned author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. Eager to resume writing fiction at the scene of his earlier happiness, he assembled a biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce, who was running for president. When Pierce won the election, Hawthorne is appointed the lucrative post of consul in Liverpool.Coming home from Europe in 1860, Hawthorne settled down in Concord once more. He tried to take up writing one last time, but deteriorating health finds him withdrawing into private life. In Hawthorne in Concor
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Lexington Books Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory:
Book SynopsisLiterature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory: Stories That Are Telling focuses on a selection of novelists from the early 1800s to the early 1900s and their connections to the insights of Classical Sociological Theory and the sociological imagination. This monograph also considers the aesthetic, sociological, and literary insights of Theodor Adorno, György Lukács, Fredric Jameson, Raymond Williams, Wolf Lepenies, Franco Moretti, Lucien Goldmann, and John Orr. The main chapters discuss the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. The concluding chapter reflects on the dawn of modernity, especially the birth of capitalism and the plague crisis via Boccaccio’s Florence, significant to The Decameron. Throughout the text, Sarah Louise MacMillen considers these “stories that are telling” in light of social issues today. She presents a case for highlighting the authors of the past, wherein these fictional accounts anticipate some of our contemporary social problems and social movements. These dynamics include the environmental crisis, the effects of globalization, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, “cancel culture,” debates about gender nonconformity, and secularization. Finally, MacMillen reflects on the need for solidarity in shifting patterns of social existence and rebuilding post-COVID.Trade ReviewIn this important book, Sarah MacMillen moves easily between the domains of literature and the classical sociological tradition, demonstrating with considerable insight how the cross-fertilization of these discourses yields a more profound understanding of how the forces of industrialization, urbanization, secularization, capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism intersect powerfully with the biographical trajectories of individuals. -- Anthony Haynor, Seton Hall UniversityMacMillen’s profound examination of literature and the history of sociological thought is a boon to those of us who teach the theorists of the classical era. It makes salient the connection of sociology to the humanities, while highlighting the critical potential of sociological thought vis-à-vis capitalist modernity. Highly recommended! -- Peter C. Blum, Hillsdale CollegeWhat does sociological theory have to say about literature? How can today’s social problems and controversies be critiqued when looking back at such works as Moby Dick (Melville), Heart of Darkness (Conrad), Orlando (Woolf), The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov? In this collection, MacMillen reveals her extensive reading in religion, popular culture, sexuality, literary theory, and social philosophy. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Introduction—Literature in the Dawn of Sociological TheoryChapter Two: New England Shadows: Hawthorne, Faust, and the American Spiritual CharacterChapter Three: Moby-Dick as Modern Epic: “Symphony” in a Broken Ontology Chapter Four: Literary Metanoia and the Sociological Imagination in Joseph Conrad: Colonialism and Western IdealismChapter Five: Women and Men: the TragicomicChapter Six: Suspending Modernity: Gender and History in Virginia Woolf’s OrlandoChapter Seven: The Absurd Christian and the Sociological Imagination of DostoevskyChapter Eight: Conclusion—Stories in the Dawn of Capitalism: Crisis and Narrative in Boccaccio’s DecameronBibliography
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St Martin's Press Hester
Book SynopsisNamed a Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2022 by Goodreads Washington Post New York Post BuzzFeed PopSugar Business Insider An October 2022 Indie Next List Pick An October 2022 LibraryReads PickA hauntingly beautifuland imaginedorign story to The Scarlet Letter. PeopleWHO IS THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE?Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Edinburgh for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they''ve arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medicleaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible.When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he
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