Author: Colacurcio, Michael J.; editor:
Title: New Essays on the Scarlet Letter
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985. orig. wrappers. 22x14cm, viii,164 pp. PAPERBACK.. Some rubbing. Light binding soil. Name on half-title. VG. ¶ The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of the novel. Each of the interpretative essays that follow places The Scarlet Letter in a specific historical and cultural context. The first shows that an awareness of the convention of romance is essential to an understanding of the novel. A second investigates the tension between Hawthorne's Puritan setting and his Romantic language, suggesting a complex relationship among author, narrator, characters, and story. A third considers the novel's pervasive metaphor of sexuality. The final essay locates the work in the genre of 'the novel of adultery' "- Publisher's description.

Keywords: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, American Literature, Literary Criticism, , , , ,