TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hawthorne,Nathaniel
AU  - Murfin,Ross C.
TI  - The scarlet letter: complete, authoritative text with biographical background and critical history plus essays from five contemporary critical perspectives with introductions and bibliographies 
T2  - Case studies in contemporary criticism
SN  - 0312060246 (hardcover)
AV  - PS1868.A2 M87 1991
U1  - 813.3 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
KW  - Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
KW  - Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Illegitimate children
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Married women
KW  - Puritans
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Revenge
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Boston (Mass.)
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - English fiction
KW  - United States
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Part One. The complete text. The prison-door -- The market-place -- The recognition -- The interview -- Hester at her needle -- Pearl -- The governor's hall -- The elf-child and the minister -- The leech -- The leech and his patient -- The interior of a heart -- The minister's vigil -- Another view of Hestor -- Hester and the physician -- Hester and Pearl -- A forest walk -- The pastor and his parishioner -- A flood of sunshine -- The child at the brook-side -- The minister in a maze -- The New England holiday -- The procession -- The revelation of the scarlet letter -- Conclusion. Part Two. A case study in contemporary criticism -- Introduction: the critical background -- Psychoanalytic criticism and The scarlet letter -- Re-reading The letter: Hawthorne, the fetish, and the (family) romance / Joanne Feit Diehl -- Reader-response criticism and The scarlet letter -- Mrs. Hawthorne's headache: reading The scarlet letter / David Leverenz -- Feminist criticism and The scarlet letter -- The scarlet letter (a)dor©♭e, or the female body embroidered / Shari Benstock -- Deconstruction and The scarlet letter -- Silence, family discourse, and fiction in The scarlet letter / Michael Ragussis -- The new historicism and The scarlet letter -- Hawthorne's a-morality of compromise / Sacvan Bercovitch
ER  -