Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter: Essays, Articles, Reviews Paperback - 2000
by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews (Editor)
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At last available in a single volume: comprehensive overviews and concise analyses of the key critical texts and approaches to the most-studied works of literature. By assembling extracts from essays, reviews, and articles, the columbia critical guides provide students with ready access to the most important secondary writings on one or more texts by a given writer.
each volume:
-- Offers a balanced and nuanced approach to criticism, drawing on a wide array of British and American sources -- Explains criticism in terms of key approaches, allowing students to grasp the central issues for each work -- Is edited by a noted scholar who specializes in the writer or work in question -- Includes notes and a comprehensive bibliography and index.
With the publication of the scarlet letter in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne achieved not only critical recognition in his native New England but also an undisputed place amongst the newly emerging ranks of great American writers.
This guide introduces and sets in context the enormous range of critical arguments that have been generated by this enduring work. From the comments and reviews of Hawthorne's contemporaries through discussions of the novel by fellow artists such as Henry James and D. H. Lawrence to radical re-readings of the postwar decades, the reader is given an invaluable guide to the critical progress of this key American text.
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- Title Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter: Essays, Articles, Reviews
- Author Elmer Kennedy-Andrews (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2000-12-27
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780231121910 / 0231121911
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.81 x 5.21 x 0.56 in (19.84 x 13.23 x 1.42 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Women in literature, Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00026250
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.3
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