New Essays on 'The Scarlet Letter' (The American Novel)

ISBN: 9780521266765

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版年: 1985-10-31

页数: 176

定价: USD 24.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of the novel. Each of the interpretative essays that follow places The Scarlet Letter in a specific historical and cultural context. The first shows that an awareness of the convention of romance is essential to an understanding of the novel. A second investigates the tension between Hawthorne's Puritan setting and his Romantic language, suggesting a complex relationship among author, narrator, characters, and story. A third considers the novel's pervasive metaphor of sexuality. The final essay locates the work in the genre of 'the novel of adultery'.