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How Nathanial Hawthorne's Narratives are Shaped by Sin: His Use of Biblical Typology in His Four Major Works
Author(s): Jason Charles Courtmanche (Author), Samuel Coale (Foreword)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 July 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 268 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780773450172
- ISBN-13: 0773450173
Book Description
Courtmanche (writing, U. of Connecticut-Storrs) shows how the types of character, plot, setting, and symbol that American writer Hawthorne (1804-64) used in his four best known novels were drawn from his reading of the Bible. He identifies a nascent typology of sin in The Scarlet Letter, the American Garden of Eden in The House of the Seven Gables, a negation of his typology of evil in The Blithedale Romance, and the ontology of sin in The Marble Faun. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
