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Women's issues in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Claudia Durst Johnson, book editor

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Social issues in literaturePublication details: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2009Description: 167 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780737742626
  • 0737742623
  • 9780737742633
  • 0737742631
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS1868 .W45 2009
Contents:
Background on Nathaniel Hawthorne. Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne / John L. Idol Jr. ; Hawthorne's family's impact on his fiction / Gloria C. Erlich ; Hawthorne-Fuller friendship / David B. Kesterson -- Scarlet letter and women's issues. Hester and feminists of the 1840s / David S. Reynolds ; Mixture of feminism and misogyny / Alison Easton ; Puritans and feminists / Leland S. Person ; Hester as hero / Nina Baym ; Woman identified with the marginalized artist / Ken Egan Jr. ; Woman's calling / Carolyn R. Maibor ; Living against nature in Puritan New England / Frederick Newberry ; Woman as outsider / Kristin Herzog ; Leadership and delicacy / Joyce W. Warrren ; Hawthorne lets the patriarchs win / Louise DeSalvo -- Contemporary perspectives on women's issues. Forced marriage / John Dougherty, Kirk Johnson ; Single mother / Ruth Sidel ; Still quiet and submissive / John Hooper, Jo Revill, Tania Branigan ; "GodMen" in a defeminized church / Paul T. Coughlin ; Hester's powerful progeny / Karen Breslau
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-160) and index

Background on Nathaniel Hawthorne. Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne / John L. Idol Jr. ; Hawthorne's family's impact on his fiction / Gloria C. Erlich ; Hawthorne-Fuller friendship / David B. Kesterson -- Scarlet letter and women's issues. Hester and feminists of the 1840s / David S. Reynolds ; Mixture of feminism and misogyny / Alison Easton ; Puritans and feminists / Leland S. Person ; Hester as hero / Nina Baym ; Woman identified with the marginalized artist / Ken Egan Jr. ; Woman's calling / Carolyn R. Maibor ; Living against nature in Puritan New England / Frederick Newberry ; Woman as outsider / Kristin Herzog ; Leadership and delicacy / Joyce W. Warrren ; Hawthorne lets the patriarchs win / Louise DeSalvo -- Contemporary perspectives on women's issues. Forced marriage / John Dougherty, Kirk Johnson ; Single mother / Ruth Sidel ; Still quiet and submissive / John Hooper, Jo Revill, Tania Branigan ; "GodMen" in a defeminized church / Paul T. Coughlin ; Hester's powerful progeny / Karen Breslau

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