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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Página 90
... male takeover of one of his major characters also figures his inability , despite his fondest wishes , to exceed his own male prejudice . What is at stake for Hawthorne is the very issue of the future ; and this issue , Hawthorne ...
... male takeover of one of his major characters also figures his inability , despite his fondest wishes , to exceed his own male prejudice . What is at stake for Hawthorne is the very issue of the future ; and this issue , Hawthorne ...
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... male separated from female — that by the mid - nineteenth century constituted middle - class existence . One need only contrast the gawking , vociferous matrons who surround the scaffold in the early chapters with the mother and ...
... male separated from female — that by the mid - nineteenth century constituted middle - class existence . One need only contrast the gawking , vociferous matrons who surround the scaffold in the early chapters with the mother and ...
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... male fiction writer redoing the seduction formula as a domestic love story of mother , daughter , and missing father . Moreover , the partition between public and private , male and female , encapsulated in the break between “ The ...
... male fiction writer redoing the seduction formula as a domestic love story of mother , daughter , and missing father . Moreover , the partition between public and private , male and female , encapsulated in the break between “ The ...
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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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