Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 230 g
Reihe: The American Novel
Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 230 g
Reihe: The American Novel
ISBN: 978-0-521-31998-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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'.
