Hawthorne\'s greatest romance, The Scarlet Letter , is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption.
If Hawthorne\'s fiction rigorously and faithfully subjects Hester and Dimmesdale to the limits of seventeenth-century possibility, it nonetheless looks forward to the better, brighter world of Margaret Fuller and Fanny Fern, of Charles Fourier and J.
Colacurcio argues that The Scarlet Letter is a serious historical novel.
In his introduction, Michael J.
Hawthorne\'s greatest romance, The Scarlet Letter , is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption