Pennant Key Indexed Study Guide To Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter PDF Download

This reference guides scholars through the vast amount of literary criticism devoted to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" between 1950 and 2000. Following introductory information on the work's initial reception are some 800 cross-referenced bibliographical entries--arranged first by decade, and then alphabetically by author. Muirhead's annotations illuminate the principal arguments and describe the theoretical models used by the authors. The volume is indexed by author, subject, and critical approach. Muirhead (Duquesne U.) has published three prior bibliographic studies on Hawthorne in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review.