New Essays on 'The Scarlet Letter'
Author : Michael J. Colacurcio
Publisher : CUP Archive
Release Date : 1985-10-31
ISBN : 9780521319980
Pages : 180 pages
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Download Free New Essays on 'The Scarlet Letter' PDF by Michael J. Colacurcio Full Book and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985-10-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of the novel. Each of the interpretative essays that follow places The Scarlet Letter in a specific historical and cultural context. The first shows that an awareness of the convention of romance is essential to an understanding of the novel. A second investigates the tension between Hawthorne's Puritan setting and his Romantic language, suggesting a complex relationship among author, narrator, characters, and story. A third considers the novel's pervasive metaphor of sexuality. The final essay locates the work in the genre of 'the novel of adultery'.