Question
Both Meredith A. Powers and Mark Van Doren have argued that this author’s heroines rise above his male characters to the status of “Goddesses.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who depicted the adulterous Puritan Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne [or Nathaniel Hathorne]
[10h] This book contrasts Hester’s “nobility” to Dimmesdale’s “Lilliputian size,” calling her a “Female Faust.” This Leslie Fiedler book examines national literature that favors “innocent homosexuality” over “adult heterosexuality.”
ANSWER: Love and Death in the American Novel
[10m] Fiedler also notes how Coverdale distrusts Zenobia for being a “fully sexual woman” in a Hawthorne book titled for this genre, which is set in Blithedale. Hawthorne used this term, rather than novel, for his long fiction.
ANSWER: romances [accept The Blithedale Romance]
<Literature - American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Waterloo Bust | Toronto Penguin World War | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |