The scarlet letter : a romance
"Hawthorne's story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet "A" as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, Puritanism, and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature." "This Broadview edition contains a selection of historical documents that include Hawthorne's writings on Puritanism, the historical sources of the story, and contemporary reviews of the novel. New to the second edition are an updated critical introduction and bibliography and, in the appendices, additional writings by Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry James, and William Dean Howells."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2004
Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ont., 2004
Fiction
421 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9781551116365, 1551116367
56011963
AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionNathaniel Hawthorne: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Scarlet Letter, A RomanceAppendix A: Hawthorne and Brook Farm (1841)Appendix B: Hawthorne at Concord (1842–1845): Thoreau, Emerson, Fuller, and TranscendentalismAppendix C: The Controversy of “The Custom-House” IntroductionAppendix D: Hawthorne’s Preface to the Second EditionAppendix E: Hawthorne’s Earlier Writings on Puritan HistoryFrom “Endicott and the Red Cross” (1838)From “Main-street” (1849)From “The Celestial Rail-road” (1843)Appendix F: Hawthorne’s American NotebooksAppendix G: Hawthorne’s Ironic VisionAppendix H: The Development of The Scarlet Letter into a RomanceAppendix I: Imagination and “the Neutral Ground” of MoonlightAppendix J: Historical Sources for The Scarlet LetterAppendix K: Contemporary Reviews of The Scarlet LetterFrom Anon.,“The New Romance,” Boston Transcript (15 March 1850)From Anon., Salem Register (21 March 1850)From Evert A. Duyckinck, “Nathaniel Hawthorne,” The Literary World (30 March 1850)From George Ripley, New York Tribune Supplement (1 April 1850)From E.P. Whipple, Graham’s Magazine (May 1850)From Henry F. Chorley, Athenæum (June 1850)From Anne W. Abbott, North American Review (July 1850)From George Bailey Loring, Massachusetts Quarterly Review (September 1850)From Orestes Brownson, Brownson’s Quarterly Review (October 1850)From Arthur Cleveland Coxe, “The Writings of Hawthorne,” Church Review (January 1851)From Henry James, Hawthorne (1879)From William Dean Howells, Heroines of Fiction (1901)Appendix L: IllustrationsWorks Cited and Recommended Readings