@article{812910, recid = {812910}, author = {Pennell, Melissa McFarland, and Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Pennell, Melissa McFarland.}, title = {The historian's Scarlet letter : reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece as social and cultural history /}, pages = {1 online resource (xxx, 261 pages).}, note = {"The source of the original text reprinted here is the first American edition: Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 "--Title page verso.}, abstract = {"This new annotated edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter explores such issues as the changing roles and views of women, the demand for conformity in the Puritan settlement, the fears of social/political threats often linked to gender, such as witchcraft and the Antinomian crisis, and colonial attitudes toward crime and punishment"--}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/812910}, }