"The Rude Contact of Some Actual Circumstance": Hawthorne and Salem's East India Marine Museum

Lee argues that from Nathaniel Hawthorne's contact with materials from the Orient, specifically those objects housed in the East India Marine Museum, he found objects that helped him to image Salem MA and Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter as nineteenth-century representations of the Orient.

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ELH 2006-12, Vol.73 (4), p.949-973
Main Author: Lee, Jee Yoon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Communities
Cultural institutions
Embroidery
Governors
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Indian literature
Literary criticism
Material culture
Materialism
Museum exhibits
Narrators
Needlework
Novels
Semiotic signs
Towns
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Summary:Lee argues that from Nathaniel Hawthorne's contact with materials from the Orient, specifically those objects housed in the East India Marine Museum, he found objects that helped him to image Salem MA and Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter as nineteenth-century representations of the Orient.
ISSN:0013-8304
1080-6547
1080-6547
DOI:10.1353/elh.2006.0030