Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet LetterHarold Bloom Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2007 - 209 páginas An allegorical tale of passion, adultery, guilt, and social repression, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter introduces readers to Hester Prynne, America's first fictional heroine. Hawthorne's story is a masterpiece of American fiction, and this updated volume from the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series explores how the author powerfully conveys its theme of the puritanical influence on societal attitudes. |
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... Dimmesdale's skill at deploying and manipulating sentiment enables him , like the popular women novelists of the 1850s , to bridge the gap between private affect and public occupation . The young preacher is conscious of the rift ...
... Dimmesdale's skill at deploying and manipulating sentiment enables him , like the popular women novelists of the 1850s , to bridge the gap between private affect and public occupation . The young preacher is conscious of the rift ...
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... Dimmesdale's thought or an angel's speech but may at best intuit both ; such leaps of faith entirely bypass the primary epistemological necessities of colonial living . 28 The Dimmesdale his congregation knows is not a man but little ...
... Dimmesdale's thought or an angel's speech but may at best intuit both ; such leaps of faith entirely bypass the primary epistemological necessities of colonial living . 28 The Dimmesdale his congregation knows is not a man but little ...
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... Dimmesdale's telling of the story . After " many days " rather than generations or centuries , " time sufficed for the people to arrange their thoughts in reference " to the meaning of Dimmesdale's sermon ( 258 ) ; little time is ...
... Dimmesdale's telling of the story . After " many days " rather than generations or centuries , " time sufficed for the people to arrange their thoughts in reference " to the meaning of Dimmesdale's sermon ( 258 ) ; little time is ...
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The APolitics of Ambiguity | 35 |
Hesters Skepticism Hawthornes Faith | 83 |
Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class | 109 |
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