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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... radical woman . If not for Pearl , he assures us , the scarlet mother " might have come down to us in history , hand in hand with Anne Hutchinson , as the foundress of a religious sect . She might , in one of her phases , have been a ...
... radical woman . If not for Pearl , he assures us , the scarlet mother " might have come down to us in history , hand in hand with Anne Hutchinson , as the foundress of a religious sect . She might , in one of her phases , have been a ...
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... radical subversion of the patriarchal structures of the society and , most significantly , of the religion that legitimates that patriarchy . Such a view , however , seems to run counter to the comparatively few recent critics who have ...
... radical subversion of the patriarchal structures of the society and , most significantly , of the religion that legitimates that patriarchy . Such a view , however , seems to run counter to the comparatively few recent critics who have ...
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... radicals in a radical Protestant tradition such as William Blake — and particularly chapter XII like him , and awaits " the woman clothed with the sun . " But even the new historicist Sacvan Bercovitch will have none of this . He calls ...
... radicals in a radical Protestant tradition such as William Blake — and particularly chapter XII like him , and awaits " the woman clothed with the sun . " But even the new historicist Sacvan Bercovitch will have none of this . He calls ...
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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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