The house of the seven gables : a romance

The house of the seven gables : a romance

The house of the seven gables, a romance,

The house of the seven gables : a romance

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Critical insights

Critical insights.

On Nathaniel Hawthorne / Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Paris review perspective / Nathaniel Hawthorne and the canon of American literature / Nathaniel Hawthorne's critical reception / The burden of secret sin: Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction / Nathaniel Hawthorne and American romanticism / The scarlet letter / Chiefly about Coverdale: The Blithedale romance / Re-figuring revelations: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Hawthorne as essayist: Our old home and "Chiefly about war matters" / "A small heap of glittering fragments": Hawthorne's discontent with the short story form / Hawthorne and nineteenth-century perfectionism / Progress and providence in The house of the seven gables / Narrative techniques and the oral tradition in The scarlet letter / Hawthorne and the sublime / Hawthorne, the fall, and the psychology of maturity / Nathaniel Hawthorne and his mother: a biographical speculation / Agnostic tensions in Hawthorne's short stories

The complete novels and selected tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Works. Selections. 1937

Complete novels & selected tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The scarlet letter -- The house of the seven gables -- The Blithedale romance -- The marble fawn -- The gray champion -- The wedding knell -- The minister's black veil -- The may-pole of Merry Mount -- The gentle boy -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe -- Wakefield -- The great carbuncle -- David Swan -- The hollow of the Three Hills -- Dr. Heidegger's experiment -- Legends of the Province House -- The ambitious guest -- Peter Goldthwaite's treasure -- The shaker bridal -- Endicott and the red cross -- The birthmark -- Young Goodman Brown -- Rappaccini's daughter -- Mrs. Bullfrog -- The celestial railroad -- The porcession of life -- Feathertop: a moralized legend -- Egotism; or, The bosom serpent -- Drowne's wooden image -- Roger Malvin's burial -- The artist of the beautiful -- The The great stone face -- Ethan Brand -- The Canterbury Pilgrims -- The devil in manuscript -- My kinsman, Major Molineux.

Twentieth century interpretations of The scarlet letter : a collection of critical essays

Twentieth century interpretations

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Scarlet letter.

Twentieth century interpretations.

Background -- First appearance of themes in The scarlet letter / First appearance of Hester in Hawthorne's works / The nature of the romance / Sources for details / The New England sources of The scarlet letter -- Puritanism / Three aspects of Hawthorne's Puritanism -- Form -- The four-part structure / The frame structure / Three epic quests / Techniques -- Allegory and symbolism / Irony / Ambiguity / Dichotomy / Archetype / Interpretations -- The range of interpretations : The scarlet letter and its modern critics / Damnation : Dimmesdale's fall / Frustration and guilt : the ruined wall / Sin, isolation, and reunion : form and content in The scarlet letter / Passion : The scarlet letter as a love story / Redemption through denial : from "Achievement and frustration"