Women's Issues in Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlett Letter

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-160) and index. Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chronology -- Chapter 1. Background on Nathaniel Hawthorne -- 1. The Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne / John L. Idol Jr. -- 2. Hawthorne's Family's Impact on His Fiction / Gloria C. Erlich -- 3. The Hawthorne-Fuller Friendship / David B. Kesterson -- Chapter 2. The Scarlet Letter and Women's Issues -- 1. Hester and Feminists of the 1840s / David S. Reynolds -- 2. A Mixture of Feminism and Misogyny / Alison Easton -- 3. Puritans and Feminists / Leland S. Person -- 4. Hester as Hero / Nina Baym -- 5. Woman Identified with the Marginalized Artist / Ken Egan Jr. -- 6. A Woman's Calling / Carolyn R. Maibor -- 7. Living Against Nature in Puritan New England / Frederick Newberry -- 8. Woman as Outsider / Kristin Herzog -- 9. Leadership and Delicacy / Joyce W. Warren -- 10. Hawthorne Lets the Patriarchs Win / Louise DeSalvo -- Chapter 3. Contemporary Perspectives on Women's Issues -- 1. The Forced Marriage / John Dougherty, Kirk Johnson -- 2. The Single Mother / Ruth Sidel -- 3. Still Quiet and Submissive / John Hooper, Jo Revill, John Hooper, Tania Branigan -- 4. GodMen in a Defeminized Church / Paul T. Coughlin -- 5. Hester's Powerful Progeny / Karen Breslau -- For Further Discussion -- For Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index. Review Citations: Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 pg. 175 (EAN 9780737742626, Library Binding) Contributor Bio:  Johnson, Claudia Durst CLAUDIA DURST JOHNSON is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where she chaired the Department of English for 12 years. She is series editor of the Greenwood Press Literature in Context series, which includes her works "Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird" (1994) and "Understanding the Scarlet Letter" (1995). She is also the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries, " (1994), "The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art" (1981), and "American Actress: Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century" (1984), and coauthor (with Vernon Johnson) of "Memoirs of the Nineteenth-Century Theatre" (Greenwood, 1982) and (with Henry Jacobs) "An Annotated Bibliography of Shakespearean Burlesques, Parodies, and Travesties" (1976), as well as numerous articles on American literature and theatre.