Week Eleven - Glogster and Annotated Bibliography #2

Glogster in place of difficulty paper #2:
http://jeanettem11.glogster.com/scarletletter-love/

Annotated Bibliography:

Bayme, Nina. "Revisiting Hawthorne's Feminism." The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings. A Norton Critical Edition ed. New York: W. W. Norton &, 2005. 540-58. Print.

In this criticism, Nina Baym opposes the idea that many reject Nathaniel Hawthorne as a male feminist. She says that Hawthorne made a distinction between the types of women: dark and fair. The dark ladies are “real”, while the fair ladies are “a ‘social myth’ invented to discipline ‘real’ women.” Baym feels that because of how Hawthorne portrays women, he is a feminist. She knows that people have called him a patriarchal sexist, but does not think that a patriarchal author could have created a character such as Hester. She insists that Hester’s character is made to “signify something entirely different – able, admirable”, which leads her to claim that the novel itself is characterized by feminism.