Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter: Essays, Articles, Reviews

by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231121910
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	12/27/2000
Series:	Columbia Critical Guides
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.21(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Elmer Kennedy-Andrews teaches at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. He is the editor of Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays and Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Contemporary Responses and Early Studies
2. Formalist and Postformalist Approaches
3. Historical Approaches
4. Psychoanalytical Approaches
5. Feminist Criticism
6. Reader-Response, Phenomenological and Poststructuralist Approaches
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

Editorial Reviews

Gives an account and a sampling of varied interpretations of Hawthorne's , encompassing moral and historical criticism, New Criticism, archetypal and myth criticism, psychoanalytical and feminist criticism, and linguistic and semiotic criticism. Analysis demonstrates the theoretical multiplicity of the text and its susceptibility to many different methodological approaches. Substantial quotes from critical works cited are highlighted in bold text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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