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Conservative And Antirevolutionary Ideology In The Scarlet Letter: A New Historicist Analysis

Ismaznizam Jesmaj Azyze, (2007) Conservative And Antirevolutionary Ideology In The Scarlet Letter: A New Historicist Analysis. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 7 (1). pp. 51-62. ISSN 1675-8021

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Abstract

This essay presents a New Historicist analysis of Hawthorne’s most acclaimed novel, The Scarlet Letter. The analysis focuses on the interplay between Hawthorne’s nineteenth century ideology and the novel’s seventeenth- entury cultural setting. The inclusion of “The Custom House,” an authorial introduction to the novel, is treated as highly significant as it presents a form of historical and ideological juxtaposition of Hawthorne’s nineteenth-century ideology with the novel’s seventeenth-century cultural setting. Biographical narratives on Hawthorne and historical narratives on nineteenth-century America are used extensively in this analysis as they offer valuable insights into the fictional formation of The Scarlet Letter. By historically establishing Hawthorne’s
conservative attitudes towards forms of revolutionary activities, this essay explicates how the structure, characterizations and themes of The Scarlet Letter are carefully formed to serve those very conservative attitudes.

Item Type:Journal
Keywords:Hawthorne, the Scarlet Letter, new historicism, ideology
Subjects:P Language and Literature
ID Code:470

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