This guide lists selected resources for library criticism of The Scarlet Letter

Reference Books

• Boswell, Jeannette. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Critics: a Checklist of Criticism, 1900-1978 . Metuchen , N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982 (Ref PS1888.B65)

• Magill's 1300 Critical Evaluations of Selected Novels and Plays (Ref PN44 M335) 4 : 2008-10

• Magill's Bibliography of Selected Novels and Plays (Ref PN523 M35) 2 : 891-2

• Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Ref PN 761.N56)

2 : 295-96, 298, 305, 307, 309-12, 314-18, 320-32; 10 : 269-317; 17 : 110-12, 114, 116, 120, 122, 124, 128-29, 132, 146-47, 151-53, 156-57; 23 : 168-69, 177-78, 183-84, 194-97, 205, 213-14, 220; 39 : 167-68, 176-77, 180, 185, 187, 189-90, 195-97, 200, 220-22, 225, 227, 236-37, 239-40, 247, 249; 79 : 290-92, 299, 308-11, 313, 327, 332; 95: 91, 109, 120, 123, 151, 170, 176, 178, 213

• Novels for Students (Ref PN 3385.N68) 1 : 306-28

Online Reference Books & Databases

• Literature Online (LION). Knowledge Notes.

Books

• Baym, Nina. The Scarlet Letter: a Reading . Boston : Twayne, 1986. (PS1868.B39 1986)
• Bloom, Harold, ed. Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter." Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2004. (PS1868 .N38 2004)
• Bloom, Harold, ed. Nathaniel Hawthorne . New York : Chelsea House, 1986. (PS1888. N29 1986)
• Colacurcio, Michael J. New Essays on 'The Scarlet Letter' . Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985. (PS1868.N48 1985)
• Colacurcio, Michael J. The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales . Cambridge , Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984. (PS1892.H5 C6 1984)
• Crews, Frederick C. The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes . Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989. (PS1881.C7)
• Elements of the Novel, V. 7 . Austin , Tex. : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 199?. (PS371.E53)
• Gerber, John C, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of 'The Scarlet Letter;' A Collection of Critical Essays . Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968. (PS1868.G38)
• Johnson, Claudia Durst. Understanding 'The Scarlet Letter': A student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents. Westport : Greenwood Press, 1995. (PS1868 .U53 1995)
• Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, ed. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 'The Scarlet Letter." New York : Columbia University Press, 2000. (PS1868.N38 2000)
• Kesterson, David B., ed. Critical Essays on Hawthorne 's 'The Scarlet Letter.' Boston , Mass. : G K Hall, 1988. (PS1868.C75 1988)
• Millington , Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne . New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. (PS1888 .C355 2004)
• Morey, Eileen, ed. Readings on 'The Scarlet Letter." San Diego : Greenhaven Press, 1998. (PS1868 .R39 1998)
• Swann, Charles E. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tradition and Revolution . Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. (PS1892.H5 S9 1991)
• Swisher, Clarice, ed. Readings on Nathaniel Hawthorne . San Diego : Greenhaven Press, 1996. (PS1888.R43 1996)

E-BOOKS

•  Clack, Randall A. The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: Alchemical Regeneration in the Works of Taylor, Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller . Westport , Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000. e-brary (PS217.A43 C57 2000eb)

•  Wineapple, Brenda. Hawthorne : A Life . New York : A A Knopf, 2003. e-brary (PS1881.W53 2003eb)

PERIODICALS

Selected full-text articles (database(s) in brackets after the citation). There are many others for this novel. Reid, Bethany . "Narrative of the Captivity and Redemption of Roger Prynne: Rereading 'The Scarlet Letter.'" Studies in the Novel 33.3 (2001): 247-268. [General OneFile]

• Milliman, Craig A. " Hawthorne 's 'The Scarlet Letter.'" The Explicator 53.2 (1995): 83-5. [General OneFile]
• Korobkin, Laura Hanft. "The scarlet letter of the law: Hawthorne and criminal justice." Novel 30.2 (1997): 193-217. [Literature Online, Academic Search Premier]
• Lease, Benjamin. "'The Whole is a Prose Poem:'An Early Review of 'The Scarlet Letter.'" American Literature . 44.1 (March, 1972): 128-30. [JSTOR]

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