The scarlet letter : complete, authoritative text with biographical background and critical history plus essays from five contemporary critical perspectives with introductions and bibliographies /

The scarlet letter : complete, authoritative text with biographical background and critical history plus essays from five contemporary critical perspectives with introductions and bibliographies / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Ross C. Murfin.

"Set in 17th-century Puritan New England, this story of illicit passion, guilt and punishment revolves around the beautiful and mysterious Hester Prynne. She is condemned to wear a scarlet letter as a sign of her adultery, and it has a strange and disturbing effect upon those around her - neigh...

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Main Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Other Authors: Murfin, Ross C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, [1991]
Series:Case studies in contemporary criticism.
Subjects:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864. > Scarlet letter.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction.
Illegitimate children > Fiction.
Women immigrants > Fiction.
Married women > Fiction.
Puritans > Fiction.
Adultery > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Clergy > Fiction.
Love triangles.
Sexual relationships.
Boston (Mass.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.

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Call Number: PS1868.A2 M87 1991
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