An Artist among the Puritans:Challenging a Cultural Image in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
This essay about The Scarlet Letter explores from a textual and cultural perspective the place of the artist in New England culture, both that of Puritan seventeenth-century Boston and of the nineteenth-century Salem satirized in « The Custom-House ». It shows how, in his typically ironic style, Haw...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2014-07-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/3623 |