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Episode 4: The Scarlet Letter
FromBetter Read than Dead: Literature from a Left Perspective
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Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Jul 28, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
We discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and everyone’s favorite religious extremists — Puritans! We’re talking adultery, history and the novel, and whether children are evil. (Of course they are. How is this a question?) We also talk about how much Hawthorne hated work and how that makes us love him even more.
On the show, we read the Norton edition edited by Leland S. Person. For more on Hawthorne (and Melville!), colonial history, and American imperial ideology, read Myra Jehlen’s American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent.
Find us on Twitter and Instagram @betterreadpod, and email us nice things at betterreadpodcast@gmail.com. Find Tristan on Twitter @tjschweiger, Katie @katiekrywo, and Megan @tuslersaurus.
On the show, we read the Norton edition edited by Leland S. Person. For more on Hawthorne (and Melville!), colonial history, and American imperial ideology, read Myra Jehlen’s American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent.
Find us on Twitter and Instagram @betterreadpod, and email us nice things at betterreadpodcast@gmail.com. Find Tristan on Twitter @tjschweiger, Katie @katiekrywo, and Megan @tuslersaurus.
Released:
Jul 28, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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