Hawthorne, Nathaniel, <br/><br/>
The scarlet letter :  complete, authoritative text with biographical background and critical history plus essays from five contemporary critical perspectives with introductions and bibliographies / 
Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Ross C. Murfin. 
 - Boston :  Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press,  c1991. 
 - xi, 371 p. ;  22 cm. 
 - Case studies in contemporary criticism .
 - Case studies in contemporary criticism. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Part One. The complete text. The prison-door -- The market-place -- The recognition -- The interview -- Hester at her needle -- Pearl -- The governor's hall -- The elf-child and the minister -- The leech -- The leech and his patient -- The interior of a heart -- The minister's vigil -- Another view of Hestor -- Hester and the physician -- Hester and Pearl -- A forest walk -- The pastor and his parishioner -- A flood of sunshine -- The child at the brook-side -- The minister in a maze -- The New England holiday -- The procession -- The revelation of the scarlet letter -- Conclusion. Part Two. A case study in contemporary criticism -- Introduction: the critical background -- Psychoanalytic criticism and The scarlet letter -- Re-reading The letter: Hawthorne, the fetish, and the (family) romance / Joanne Feit Diehl -- Reader-response criticism and The scarlet letter -- Mrs. Hawthorne's headache: reading The scarlet letter / David Leverenz -- Feminist criticism and The scarlet letter -- The scarlet letter (a)dor©♭e, or the female body embroidered / Shari Benstock -- Deconstruction and The scarlet letter -- Silence, family discourse, and fiction in The scarlet letter / Michael Ragussis -- The new historicism and The scarlet letter -- Hawthorne's a-morality of compromise / Sacvan Bercovitch. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0312060246 (hardcover) 9780312060244 (hardcover) 0312035462 (pbk.) 9780312035464 (pbk.) 0333575601 (pbk.) 9780333575604 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>89063918 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB92-22909 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.  Scarlet letter. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.<br/>Illegitimate children--Fiction.<br/>Women immigrants--Fiction.<br/>Married women--Fiction.<br/>Puritans--Fiction.<br/>Adultery--Fiction.<br/>Revenge--Fiction.<br/>Clergy--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>English fiction. United States. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Psychological fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS1868.A2  / M87 1991 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.3 
<br/><br/><label>Report. No.: </label>89063918