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This volume examines how The Scarlet Letter brings together many vital strands in American literature and culture. Puritanism and the rise of religious liberalism; philosophical Romanticism and Transcendentalism; the role of women and gender; the nature of justice and democratic governance; and the relationship between the United States and the wider world.