The Scarlet Letter: An Authoritative Text, Essays in Criticism and Scholars

Printer-friendly versionPrinter-friendly version
Title The Scarlet Letter: An Authoritative Text, Essays in Criticism and Scholars
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 1978
Authors Hawthorne, N., Bradley S. E., & Long H. E.
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords false self, psychic cancer
Notes psychic cancer"A third group--'those best able to appreciate the minister's peculiar sensibility and the wonderful operation of his spirit upon the body'--see the letter as a psychic cancer that gradually manifested itself physically." --Roy R. Male (p. 334) false self"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
URL https://books.google.com/books?id=V5FsQgAACAAJ
Full Text