The Scarlet Letter
First Edition ©2007
Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an ill...
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Enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format
Enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format
Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an illustrated introduction to the contexts and major issues of the text in its time and ours; an annotated bibliography for further reading (contexts, criticism, and Internet resources); and a concise glossary of literary terms. This title is available in print or as a Bedford e-Book to Go.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chronology: The Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
An Introduction to The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Suggestions for Further Reading and Research
Glossary of Literary Terms
About the Editor
Authors
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathanial Hawthorne was the author of many classics, such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables.
Susan S. Williams
Susan S. Williams has taught American literature in the English Department at Ohio State University since 1991. At Ohio State, she has served as director of Graduate Studies in the English Department and is the recipient of the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university’s highest recognition for teaching. She is the author of two books, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press: Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction (1997) and Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850-1900 (2006). Her work has also appeared in American Quarterly, The New England Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Narrative, among others. She is coeditor, along with her colleague Steven Fink, of a collection of essays entitled Reciprocal Influences: Literary Production, Distribution, and Consumption in America (Ohio State UP, 1999). She also coedits the journal American Periodicals and currently serves on the board of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society and of the Bedford Anthology of American Literature. She is currently writing a study of nineteenth-century abolitionist and publisher James Redpath.
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