The Scarlet Letter (1850): Library Resources

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Full text of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is available on the Web at:

• Eldritch Press
• Project Gutenberg
• University of Virginia

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about The Scarlet Letter. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience
• The American Renaissance
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction [vols 3, 7]
• The Critical Temper [vol 3]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 4]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 3]
• Cyclopepdia of World Authors [vol 3]
• The Handbook of Gothic Literature
• The Library of Literary Criticism [vol 4]
• Masterplots [vol 10]
• Ninteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 2, 10, 17, 23, 29, 79, 95, 158, 171] - look for Scarlet Letter in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
  • [vol 48] - locate the topical essay "Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction"
  • [vol 76] - locate the topical essay "Madness in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
  • [vol 116] - locate the topical essay "The Prison in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
  • [vol 128] - locate the topical essay "American Literary Criticism in the Nineteeth Century
  • [vol 140] - locate the topical essay "Ecocriticism in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
  • [vol 144] - locate the topical essay "Nineteeth Century Pornography"
  • [vol 164] - locate the topical essay "Gender in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
  • [vol 176] - locate the topical essay "Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • [vol 184] - locate the topical essay "The American Literary Renaissance"
  • [vol 192] - locate the topical essay "Calvinism in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
• Notable American Novelists [vol 2]
• Novels for Students [vol 1]
• Student Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vol 86] - locate the topical essay "Folklore and Literature"
  • [vol 126] - locate the topical essay "Law and Literature"
• Understanding The Scarlet Letter: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
  

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• Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
  

You'll find library materials that provide biographical information about Nathaniel Hawthorne, as well criticism and interpretation of Hawthorne's works.

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