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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... gender and / or race . What we find in nineteenth - century American writing , goes a version of this argument , is not economic struggle but a clash of gender styles , not a confrontation between social groups but the displacement of a ...
... gender and / or race . What we find in nineteenth - century American writing , goes a version of this argument , is not economic struggle but a clash of gender styles , not a confrontation between social groups but the displacement of a ...
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... gender in Hawthorne's text . For while gender style is always tethered to class , class exceeds the capacity of gender to contain it . The refusal of fixed gender roles returns upon class , as it were , to advertise a problem in ...
... gender in Hawthorne's text . For while gender style is always tethered to class , class exceeds the capacity of gender to contain it . The refusal of fixed gender roles returns upon class , as it were , to advertise a problem in ...
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... gender position and historical specificity . But these ambiguities do not negate the evidence linking Hester and Arthur to middle - class formation . As much as the overt allegiances , the instabilities in their respective ...
... gender position and historical specificity . But these ambiguities do not negate the evidence linking Hester and Arthur to middle - class formation . As much as the overt allegiances , the instabilities in their respective ...
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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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