Scarlet Letter

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Gross, Seymour Lee; Bradley, Sculley; Beatty, Richmond Croom; Long, E. Hudson

• ISBN13: 9780393956535
• ISBN10: 0393956539
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-06-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Critical essays accompany the story of Puritan life and the workings of the conscience on the human heart

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	vii
The Text of the Scarlet Letter	1	(178)
Essays in Criticism and Scholarship	179	(256)
Early Reviews	181	(1)
Great Feeling and Discrimination	181	(1)
Evert A. Duyckink
Tragic Power	182	(2)
Edwin Percy Whipple
Severity, Purity, and Sympathy	184	(1)
Henry F. Chorley
Hester versus Dimmesdale	185	(4)
George Bailey Loring
The Nauseous Amour of a Puritan Pastor	189	(2)
Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Recent Essays in Backgrounds and Sources	191	(1)
The New England Sources of The Scarlet Letter	191	(14)
Charles Ryskamp
Hester Prynne in History	205	(2)
Charles Boewe
Murray G. Murphy
Public Confession and The Scarlet Letter	207	(6)
Ernest W. Baughman
Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson: The Context of the Scarlet Letter	213	(18)
Michael J. Colacurcio
Tradition and Disinheritance in The Scarlet Letter	231	(18)
Frederick Newberry
Criticism: ``The Custom-House''	249	(1)
Narrative Tone in ``The Custom-House'' and The Scarlet Letter	249	(6)
Marshall Van Deusen
The Surveyor of ``The Custom-House'': A Narrator for the Scarlet Letter	255	(10)
David Stouck
The Romantic Malgre Lui: Hawthorne in ``The Custom-House''	265	(7)
Nina Baym
A key to ``The Custom-House''	272	(7)
Robert L. Berner
Criticism: The Scarlet Letter	279	(1)
The Scarlet Letter	279	(4)
F. O. Matthiessen
Form and Content in The Scarlet Letter	283	(8)
John C. Gerber
Scarlet A Minus	291	(9)
Frederic I. Carpenter
Hawthorne's Hester	300	(8)
Darrel Abel
Realms of Being and Dramatic Irony	308	(7)
Richard Harter Fogle
Three Orders: Natural, Moral, and Symbolic	315	(10)
Hyatt Howe Waggoner
Transformations: Hester and Arthur	325	(11)
Roy R. Male
``Solitude, and Love, and Anguish'': The Tragic Design of the Scarlet Letter	336	(7)
Seymour Gross
Hester's Double Providence: The Scarlet Letter and the Green	343	(7)
Daniel G. Hoffman
The Scarlet Letter as a Love Story	350	(11)
Ernest Sandeen
The Ruined Wall	361	(10)
Frederick C. Crews
The People of Boston	371	(4)
Charles Feidelson, Jr.
The Dark Blossom of Romance	375	(9)
Joel Porte
The Scarlet Letter: ``A Tale of Human Frailty and Sorrow''	384	(8)
John Caldwell Stubbs
Method in the Scarlet Letter	392	(10)
Richard H. Brodhead
Plot in The Scarlet Letter	402	(6)
Nina Baym
Hawthorne versus Hester: The Ghostly Dialectic of Romance in The Scarlet Letter	408	(8)
Daniel Cottom
The Ambivalent Narrator of The Scarlet Letter	416	(7)
David Leverenz
The Embroidered Sin: Confessional Evasion in The Scarlet Letter	423	(12)
Dennis Foster
Selected Bibliography	435	(6)
Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Chronology	441