![]() Throughout her annotations, Pennell connects scenes in The Scarlet Letter with the historical, cultural, and social contexts Hawthorne uses. She explains, "t might be more accurate to say that Hawthorn appreciated the work of historians, but did not feel bound to stick to the exact historical record when it constrained the shape or direction of his own narrative" (17). Many of Hawthorne's texts, she asserts, are influenced by his knowledge of cultural history, but they are not always historically accurate. She focuses on Hawthorne's self-education and his understanding of the cultural history of New England, specifically the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies (14). In this annotated edition of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Pennell introduces the text via an in-depth discussion of Hawthorne's life, the culture of antebellum New England and the text's Puritan setting. Edited by Melissa McFarland Pennell, Praeger, 2018. The Historian's Scarlet Letter: Reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's Masterpiece As Social and Cultural History. "Current Bibliography." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, vol.
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