In colonial New England, beautiful, young Hester Pryne bears a child although her husband is presumed lost at sea. She refuses to name the father and is condemned to wear a scarlet “A” and live as an outcast. As she transforms the badge of shame into a symbol of freedom, Hawthorne’s dramatic masterpiece envisions an authentic relation between the sexes—and a different way of imagining love, sin, and redemption—that can form the basis for America’s radical project of a true democracy.
Tabella dei contenuti
Contents
Introductory-The Custom-House
I. The Prison Door
II. The Market-Place
III. The Recognition
IV. The Interview
V. Hester at Her Needle
VI. Pearl
VII. The Governor’s Hall
VIII. The Elf-Child and the Minister
IX. The Leech
X. The Leech and His Patient
XI. The Interior of a Heart
XII. The Minister’s Vigil
XIII. Another View of Hester
XIV. Hester and the Physician
XV. Hester and Pearl
XVI. A Forest Walk
XVII. The Pastor and His Parishioner
XVIII. A Flood Of Sunshine
XIX. The Child at the Brookside
XX. The Minister in a Maze
XXI. The New England Holiday
XXII. The Procession
XXIII. The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
XXIV. Conclusion
Afterword
Biographical Timeline
Circa l’autore
Carol Gilligan is the author of the groundbreaking book, In a Different Voice. In 1997 she became the first gender studies professor at Harvard and she now teaches at New York University. She has been awarded Spencer, Grawemeyer, and Heinz Awards and named one of the twenty-five most influential Americans by Time magazine. Recent works include The Birth of Pleasure, Kyra: A Novel, The Deepening Darkness, The Scarlet Letter (a play), Why Does Patriarchy Persist? (with Naomi Snider), and Darkness Now Visible (with David J. Richards).
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