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Hawthorne's Pearl: woman-child of the future.

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From: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
Date: 20050901
Author:Daniels, Cindy Lou

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter has earned its place in the literary canon precisely because it has retained the ability to arouse interest and intellectual discussion even 154 years after its first publication. The beauty of Hawthorne's defining work is that it lends itself to contemporary analysis year after year, decade after decade. As each change in society asserts itself, critics look at Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter with a fresh perspective and find the story ripe with new meaning that is relevant to contemporary society. In fact, a fresh look at Pearl, and how ...

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