The Scarlet Letter: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical, Historical, and Cultural Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Contemporary Critical PerspectivesThis volume presents the authoritative centenary edition text of Hawthorne's classic 1851 novel, along with critical essays that read 'The Scarlet Letter' from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, feminist and new historicist perspectives. |
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The Complete Text 1850 | 21 |
Contextual Documents and Illustrations | 203 |
PURITAN CONTEXTS | 212 |
Copyright | |
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