Read the essay(s) assigned to you (below), and in 250 (typed)
words or less, write a report in which you:
1. State the author and title of the essay(s).
2. Explain the approach (social, formal, psychological, etc.) or approaches
that the author takes (and explain what makes you say so).
3. Explain what you think the author's purpose was in writing the essay.
4. State the primary idea (thesis) of the essay (and what supports
it)
5. Many of these articles have interesting comments that are not directly
related to their thesis. If you find some, include them in your report.
6. Make sure that your report reflects that you read the essay(s).
Your assignment is to tell the class what you
got out of the assigned reading. Do not waste our time by telling us that
the reading was difficult or that you did not understand it.
Bring two printed copies to class.
One will be collected at the beginning of class. You will read the other
copy to the class.
In class, you should take notes on these reports.
You can use the information in your in-class essays (Assignment
6).
| [Jane Swisshelm] "From the Saturday Visiter" (271)
[3]
Robert S. Levine. "Antebellum Feminists on Hawthorne: Reconsidering
the Reception of The Scarlet Letter" (274)
[17] = 20 |
1
Baltzley, Dominique |
| Charles Ryskamp. "The New England Sources of The Scarlet Letter"
(291) [13]
Frederick Newberry, "A Red-Hot A and a Lusting Divine: Sources for The
Scarlet Letter" (331) [7] = 20
|
2
Moreno, Mario |
Michael J. Colacurcio. "Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson: The Context of
The Scarlet Letter" (304) [27]
|
3
Thomas, Paul |
Kristin Boudreau, "Hawthorne's Model of Christian Charity" (338)
[30]
|
4
Dressler, Bradley
Sulouff, Joseph |
Ellen Weinauer, "Considering Possession in The Scarlet Letter"
(368) [19]
|
5
Bergenstock, Cory
Flor, Carla |
| Orestes Brownson. "From Brownson's Quarterly" (250)
[4]
John Franzosa, "'The Custom-House,' The Scarlet Letter, and Hawthorne's
Separation from Salem" (387) [17] = 21 |
6
Bowersox, Thad
Dupert, Samantha |
| Douglas Anderson, "Jefferson, Hawthorne, and 'The Custom-House'" (404)
14]
Michael Winship, "Hawthorne and the 'Scribbling Women': Publishing The
Scarlet Letter in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (418)
[8] = 22
|
7
Snook, Dustin
Vonada, Samantha |
Laura Hanft Korobkin, "The Scarlet Letter of the Law: Hawthorne and
Criminal Justice" (426) [25]
|
8
Gandy, Allison
Nerantzoulis, Antoni |
| [Edwin Percy Whipple] "From Graham's Magazine" (239)
[3]
David Leverenz, "Mrs. Hawthorne's Headache: Reading
The Scarlet Letter" (463) [21]
|
9
Andrews, Rachel
Welker, David |
Stephen Railton, "The Address of The Scarlet Letter" (481)
[19]
|
10
Aikey, Casey
Umberger, Craig |
| Louise DeSalvo, "Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Feminists:
The Scarlet
Letter" (500) [12]
Robert K. Martin. "Hester Prynne, C'est Moi: Nathaniel Hawthorne
and the Anxieties of Gender" (512) [10] = 22
|
11
Cafarchio, Nicholas
Ellis, Brittny |
T. Walter Herbert, Jr. "Nathaniel Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, and The
Scarlet Letter: Interactive Selfhoods and the Cultural Construction
of Gender" (522) [19]
|
12
Hatch, Lee
Brooks, Loren |
| Amory Dwight Mayo "From Universalist Quarterly" (263)
[8]
Nina Baym "Revisiting Hawthorne's Feminism" (541)
[17] = 25
|
13
Plymette, Kevin
Early, Clifford |
| Evert A. Duyckinck, "From Literary World" (237)
[3]
Bethany Reid, "Narrative of the Captivity and Redemption of Roger Prynne:
Rereading The Scarlet Letter" (558)
[18]
|
14
Laielli, Cody
Card, Brandon |
Sacvan Bercovitch, "The A-Politics of Ambiguity in The Scarlet Letter"
(576) [21]
|
15
Robinson, Nicole
Perry, Isaac |
| [Anne W. Abbott] "From North American Review" (241)
[9]
Michael T. Gilmore, "Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class" (597)
[17] = 26
|
16
Schlener, Brian
Daniels, James |
Larry J. Reynolds, "The Scarlet Letter and Revolutions Abroad"
(614) [18]
|
17
Confer, Erica
Linn, Amanda |
Jean Fagan Yellin, "The Scarlet Letter and the Antislavery Feminists"(632)
[24]
|
18
Haines, Ashby
Grogaard, Courtney |
| [Arthur Cleveland Coxe] "From Church Review" (254)
[9]
Leland S. Person, "The Dark Labyrinth of Mind: Hawthorne, Hester, and
the Ironies of Racial Mothering" (656) [14]
= 23
|
19
Eckert, Stacy
Ferraiolo, Michael |
OTHER WRITINGS: |
|
| Amy Schrager Lang, "Anne Hutchinson" (670)
[10]
John Nickel, "Hawthorne's Demystification of History in 'Endicott and
the Red Cross'" (680) [13] = 23
You do not need to have read "Endicott
and the Red Cross" in order to report on what this essay has to say about
what history is, what Nickel suggests about Hawthorne's "demystification,"
and what this essay suggests about who we are and how we should read histories.
|
20
Seibert, Cody
Ault, Laura |
