Author: Joseph Barlow FeltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Annals of Salem
Author: Joseph Barlow FeltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The North American Review
Author: Form and Fable in American Fiction
Author: Daniel HoffmanPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813915258
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Combining the disciplines of folklore and literary criticism in his perceptive readings of works by Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, and Mark Twain, Daniel Hoffman demonstrates how these authors transformed materials from both high and popular culture, from their European past and their American present, in works that helped to form our national consciousness. In his new preface, Hoffman describes the evolution of his critical method and suggests the book's value for contemporary readers.
The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0553897365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth. With The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride.
Four Great American Classics
Author: Herman MelvillePublisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0553905104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day. The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical roots in Puritan New England and masterfully re-creates a society’s preoccupation with sin, guilt, and pride. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn carries readers along on Huck’s unforgettable journey down the Mississippi in America’s foremost comic epic—the first great novel in a truly American voice. The Red Badge of Courage re-creates the brutal reality of war and its psychological impact on a young Civil War soldier in one of the most moving and widely read American novels. Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories joins the world’s great tragic literature as a doomed seaman becomes the innocent victim of a clash between social authority and individual freedom.
Bibliotheca Americana Nova
Author: Bibliotheca Americana Nova
Author: Obadiah RichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana Nova
Author: O. RichThe Christian Examiner and General Review
Author: Francis JenksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393623521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to The Scarlet Letter—Hawthorne’s most widely read novel—as well as to the five short prose works—“Mrs. Hutchinson,” “Endicott and the Red Cross,” “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” and “The Birth-mark”—that closely relate to the 1850 novel. This Second Norton Critical Edition also includes: · Revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface, and a note on the text by Leland S. Person. · Key passages from Hawthorne’s notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and public writings · Seven new critical essays by Brook Thomas, Michael Ryan, Thomas R. Mitchell, Jay Grossman, Jamie Barlowe, John Ronan, and John F. Birk. · A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.