New essays on The scarlet letter

edited by Michael J. Colacurcio

The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of the novel from the moralising reactions of Hawthorne's contemporaries, through the assessments of writers such as Henry James and D. H. Lawrence, to the more recent approaches of the New Criticism, formalism, psychoanalytical criticism, structuralism and feminism. Each of the interpretative essays that follow places The Scarlet Letter in a specific historical and cultural context. The first shows that an awareness of the convention of romance is essential to an understanding of the novel. A second investigates the tension between Hawthorne's Puritan setting and his Romantic language, suggesting a complex relationship among author, narrator, characters, and story. A third considers the novel's pervasive metaphor of sexuality. The final essay locates the work in the genre of 'the novel of adultery'.

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[目次]

  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: the spirit and the sign Michael J. Colacurcio
  • 2. Arts of deception: Hawthorne, 'romance' and The Scarlet Letter Michael Davitt Bell
  • 3. Hester's labyrinth: transcendental rhetoric in Puritan Boston David van Leer
  • 4. 'The woman's own choice': sex, metaphor and the Puritan 'sources' of The Scarlet Letter Michael J. Colacurcio
  • 5. His folly, her weakness: demystified adultery in The Scarlet Letter Carol Bensick
  • Notes on contributors
  • Selected bibliography.

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書名 New essays on The scarlet letter
著作者等 Colacurcio, Michael
Elliot Emory (University of California Riverside)
Colacurcio Michael J.
シリーズ名 The American novel
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1985
ページ数 viii, 164 p
大きさ 22 cm
ISBN 0521319986
0521266769
NCID BA00219919
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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