| 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." |
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