The historian's Scarlet letter : reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece as social and cultural history / edited by Melissa McFarland Pennell.
2018
PS1868.A2 P46 2018eb
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The historian's Scarlet letter : reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece as social and cultural history / edited by Melissa McFarland Pennell.
ISBN
9781440846991 (electronic book)
1440846995 (electronic book)
9781440846984
1440846995 (electronic book)
9781440846984
Published
Santa Barbara : Praeger, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxx, 261 pages).
Call Number
PS1868.A2 P46 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.3
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on print version record.
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Series
Historian's annotated classics.
Includes
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.
Pennell, Melissa McFarland. Historian's Scarlet letter.
Pennell, Melissa McFarland. Historian's Scarlet letter.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chronology
Chapter 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Burden of the Past and the Promise of His Own Era
Chapter 2. Hawthorne, the Historical Romance, and Seventeenth-Century [MS1] New England
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Annotations by Melissa McFarland Pennell.
Chronology
Chapter 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Burden of the Past and the Promise of His Own Era
Chapter 2. Hawthorne, the Historical Romance, and Seventeenth-Century [MS1] New England
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Annotations by Melissa McFarland Pennell.