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Before discussing the novels of James, I want to clarify the notion of ‘woman as sign in the literary text’, by looking briefly at a work which confronts this idea in a form more clear cut and insistent than James was to use: Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
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N. Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Boston, 1850), pp. 36–7.
H. James, Hawthorne (London, 1879), p. 112.
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Allen, E. (1984). The Scarlet Letter. In: A Woman’s Place in the Novels of Henry James. Macmillan Studies in American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17469-0_3
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