The scarlet letter
Subtitle: complete, authoritative text with biographical background and critical history plus essays from five contemporary critical perspectives with introductions and bibliographies
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Ross C. Murfin.
Contributors: Murfin, Ross C.
Series: Case studies in contemporary criticism
Publisher: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.; Illegitimate children -- Fiction.; Women immigrants -- Fiction.; Married women -- Fiction.; Puritans -- Fiction.; Adultery -- Fiction.; Revenge -- Fiction.; Clergy -- Fiction.; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Set in 17th-century Puritan New England, this story of illicit passion, guilt and punishment revolves around the beautiful and mysterious Hester Prynne. She is condemned to wear a scarlet letter as a sign of her adultery, and it has a strange and disturbing effect upon those around her - neighbours, husband, lover and child." "The student will find a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.