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Title:

The historian's Scarlet letter : reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece as social and cultural history / edited by Melissa McFarland Pennell.

Publisher:

Praeger,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxx, 261 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864.--Scarlet letter.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Social and political views.
Social values--United States--History--19th century.
United States--History--History--19th century.
Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
Literature and history--United States--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Pennell, Melissa McFarland, editor.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.
Pennell, Melissa McFarland, Historian's Scarlet letter.

Notes:

"The source of the original text reprinted here is the first American edition: Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 "--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface -- Chronology -- Chapter 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Burden of the Past and the Promise of His Own Era -- Chapter 2. Hawthorne, the Historical Romance, and Seventeenth-Century [MS1] New England -- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Annotations by Melissa McFarland Pennell.

Summary:

"This new annotated edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter explores such issues as the changing roles and views of women, the demand for conformity in the Puritan settlement, the fears of social/political threats often linked to gender, such as witchcraft and the Antinomian crisis, and colonial attitudes toward crime and punishment"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

The historian's annotated classics

ISBN:

1440847002
9781440847004
1440846987
9781440846984

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1019834946

LCCN:

2017049751

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)