Literature · Nineteenth-Century Literature
A topic within Nineteenth-Century Literature, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Literature.
2 works
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Follows Hester Prynne's public branding for adultery in Puritan Boston to argue that enforced public shame corrupts the community that inflicts it more than the sinner who bears it.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Herman Melville
Turns a whaling voyage into an extended argument that Ahab's fixation on one meaning for the whale — vengeance, evil, fate — is itself the madness the book anatomises.
about 14 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026