The Scarlet Letter,9781551116365

The Scarlet Letter

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781551116365
ISBN10: 1551116367
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-11-30
Publisher(s): Broadview Pr
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Summary

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and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature.This Broadview edition contains a selection of historical documents that include Hawthorne's writings on Puritanism, the historical sources of the story, and contemporary reviews of the novel.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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 8(1)
Preface 9(2)
Introduction 11(56)
Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Brief Chronology 67(4)
A Note on the Text 71(2)
The Scarlet Letter, A Romance
73(222)
Appendix A: Hawthorne and Brook Farm (1841)
295(2)
Appendix B: Hawthorne at Concord (1842--1845): Thoreau, Emerson, Fuller, and Transcendentalism
297(23)
Appendix C: The Controversy of ``The Custom-House'' Introduction
320(8)
Appendix D: Hawthorne's Preface to the Second Edition
328(1)
Appendix E: Hawthorne's Earlier Writings on Puritan History
329(5)
From ``Endicott and the Red Cross'' (1838)
329(1)
From ``Main-street'' (1849)
330(1)
From ``The Celestial Rail-road'' (1843)
331(3)
Appendix F: Hawthorne's American Notebooks
334(4)
Appendix G: Hawthorne's Ironic Vision
338(6)
Appendix H: The Development of The Scarlet Letter into a Romance
344(7)
Appendix I: Imagination and ``the Neutral Ground'' of Moonlight
351(2)
Appendix J: Historical Sources for The Scarlet Letter
353(14)
Appendix K: Contemporary Reviews of The Scarlet Letter
367(34)
From Anon., ``The New Romance,'' Boston Transcript (15 March 1850)
367(1)
From Anon., Salem Register (21 March 1850)
368(2)
From Evert A. Duyckinck, ``Nathaniel Hawthorne,'' The Literary World (30 March 1850)
370(2)
From George Ripley, New York Tribune Supplement (1 April 1850)
372(2)
From E.P. Whipple, Graham's Magazine (May 1850)
374(2)
From Henry F. Chorley, Athenaeum (June 1850)
376(2)
From Anne W.Abbott, North American Review (July 1850)
378(3)
From George Bailey Loring, Massachusetts Quarterly Review (September 1850)
381(7)
From Orestes Brownson, Brownson's Quarterly Review (October 1850)
388(4)
From Arthur Cleveland Coxe, ``The Writings of Hawthorne,'' Church Review (January 1851)
392(4)
From Henry James, Hawthorne (1879)
396(2)
From William Dean Howells, Heroines of Fiction (1901)
398(3)
Appendix L: Illustrations
401(3)
Works Cited and Recommended Readings 404

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