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Additional resources for this
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The Scarlet Letter and
Nathaniel Hawthorne's America
Books
Brenda Wineapple, the author of the essay you’ve
just read, has also written the most authoritative biography
of Hawthorne to date: Hawthorne: A Life (A.A.
Knopf, 2003).
You may find this interesting as well:
Bosco, Ronald A., and Jillmarie Murphy, (Eds). Hawthorne
in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life,
Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by
Family, Friends, and Associates. Iowa City: University
of Iowa Press, c2007.
General reference works for Hawthorne, his life and
works:
Gale, Robert L. A Nathaniel Hawthorne Encyclopedia.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Millington, Richard (Ed). The Cambridge Companion
to Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
Reynolds, Larry J. A Historical Guide to Nathaniel
Hawthorne. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
The best available texts of The Scarlet Letter
are:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Leland S. Person (Ed). The
Scarlet Letter and Other Writings. New York: W.W.
Norton & Co., c2005.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Ross C. Murfin (Ed). The
Scarlet Letter: Complete,
Authoritative Text with Biographical Background and
Critical History Plus Essays from Five Contemporary
Critical Perspectives with Introductions and Bibliographies.
Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1991.
As you can imagine, there are a wealth of works on
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. For critical
evaluations of the novel, see these recent books:
Muirhead, Kimberly Free. Nathaniel Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter: A Critical Resource Guide and Comprehensive
Bibliography of Literary Criticism, 1950-2000.
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, c2004.
Scharnhorst, Gary (Ed). The Critical Response to
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. New York:
Greenwood Press, 1992.
For help in using the novel in the classroom, look
at:
Johnson, Claudia D. Understanding the Scarlet Letter:
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical
Documents. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.
If you’re interested in learning more about Hawthorne’s
circle, look at these books:
Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic
Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Cheever, Susan. American Bloomsbury: Louisa May
Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau; Their Lives, Their
Loves, Their Work. New York: Simon & Schuster,
2006.
Stern, Madeleine B. The Life of Margaret Fuller.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Von Mehren, Joan. Minerva and the Muse: A Life
of Margaret Fuller. Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, c1994.
Internet
For more background on Nathaniel Hawthorne, head straight
to the “Hawthorne in Salem” Website created
by the House of Seven Gables Historic Site, Salem Maritime
National Historic Site, and Peabody Essex Museum:
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Introduction.html
“Literature” segment has sections on the
Custom House chapter, Women in Hawthorne, Faith and
Religion, and other relevant topics:
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Literature/Introduction.html
Scholars’ Forum has full texts of many helpful
lectures, essays, maps, and a timeline:
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/ScholarsForum/
Lectures_and_Articles_Complete_List.html
While the Hawthorne in Salem Website doesn’t have
an “Education” section to help classroom
teachers, James Madison University in Virginia comes
to our rescue with the wonderful Internet School Library
Media Center's “Nathaniel Hawthorne Teacher’s
Resource File”. This one is so good you won’t
believe it – links to online biographies of the
author (ones that you can depend on), texts of Hawthorne’s
works on the Internet, links to lesson plans –
and really good ones, too:
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hawthorne.htm
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