The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of
the novel from the moralising reactions of Hawthorne's
contemporaries, through the assessments of writers such as Henry
James and D. H. Lawrence, to the more recent approaches of the New
Criticism, formalism, psychoanalytical criticism, structuralism and
feminism. Each of the interpretative essays that follow places The
Scarlet Letter in a specific historical and cultural context. The
first shows that an awareness of the convention of romance is
essential to an understanding of the novel. A second investigates
the tension between Hawthorne's Puritan setting and his Romantic
language, suggesting a complex relationship among author, narrator,
characters, and story. A third considers the novel's pervasive
metaphor of sexuality. The final essay locates the work in the
genre of 'the novel of adultery'.
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