The Making of the Hawthorne Subject

The Making of the Hawthorne Subject
Author: Alison Easton
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780826210401
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Nearly all critics of Hawthorne have ignored this element of development, thus missing the complex evolution of the subject and the revealing intertextual play of meaning that is evident in everything Hawthorne wrote during this period.

Study Guide to The Scarlet Letter and Other Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Study Guide to The Scarlet Letter and Other Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Intelligent Education
Publisher: Influence Publishers
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2020-06-28
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1645423530
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, renowned American novelist. Titles in this study guide include The Marble Faun, The House of the Seven Gables, and The Scarlet Letter. As an author of the nineteenth-century, his novels and short stories primarily contained themes of mortality, religion, and history. Moreover, his writing influenced and followed the literary subgenre of dark romanticism, which reflected a fascination of the irrational and strange. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Updated Edition

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Updated Edition
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2009
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 1438113358
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A collection of critical essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne's work.

Story Line

Story Line
Author: Ian Marshall
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780813917986
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Weaving together stories of his hiking adventures with reflective explorations of literary works set along the Appalachian Trail, Marshall traces a literary geography of the trail that ranges from Georgia to Maine and spans three centuries.

The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)

The Gothic's Gothic (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2016-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317206592
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First published in 1988, this book aims to provide keys to the study of Gothicism in British and American literature. It gathers together much material that had not been cited in previous works of this kind and secondary works relevant to literary Gothicism — biographies, memoirs and graphic arts. Part one cites items pertaining to significant authors of Gothic works and part two consists of subject headings, offering information about broad topics that evolve from or that have been linked with Gothicism. Three indexes are also provided to expedite searches for the contents of the entries. This book will be of interest to students of literature.

The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition

The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2004-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770482288
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Hawthorne'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.

The Threads of The Scarlet Letter

The Threads of The Scarlet Letter
Author: Richard Kopley
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874137699
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The Threads of The Scarlet Letter offers new discoveries regarding the origins of Hawthorne's masterpiece, as well as critical interpretations based on these discoveries. Relying on a blend of close reading, biographical analysis, and archival research, this book demonstrates anew the power of traditional scholarship. The Threads of The Scarlet Letter illuminates Hawthorne's transformation of Poe's celebrated tale The Tell-Tale Heart and Lowell's long-neglected poem A Legend of Brittany and, identifying the hitherto-unknown author of the seminal narrative The Salem Belle, investigates Hawthorne's brilliant borrowing from that novel as well. The present volume argues that Hawthorne repeatedly attenuated his sources, but also allowed sufficient detail to permit their recognition. Furthermore, this volume elaborates Hawthorne's reworking of formal traditions in The Scarlet Letter--traditions that importantly clarify the meaning of the whole. The Scarlet Letter is shown to be a complex rendering of man's fall and redemption, and a triumphant assertion of literary vocation. The Threads of The Scarlet Letter includes a useful bibliographical overview of the history of the study of the origins of Hawthorne's greatest work.