Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bloom, Harold
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2004]
Series:	Bloom's guides.
Subjects:	Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864. > Scarlet letter. Mothers and daughters in literature. Massachusetts > In literature. Puritans in literature. Adultery in literature. Women in literature.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Biographical sketch
The story behind the story
List of characters
Summary and analysis
Critical views. Henry James on the puritan moral presence in Hawthorne's masterpiece ; William Bysshe Stein on Chillingworth's faustian qualities ; Harry Levin on the darkness of Hawthorne's theme ; Darrel Abel on Dimmesdale and God's wrath ; Mark Van Doren on Pearl ; Austin Warren on Dimmesdale's ambivalence ; Terence Martin on Hawthorne's scaffold scenes ; Gordon Hutner on Hawthorne's rhetoric of secrecy ; Charles Swann on the role of the custom house.