The Scarlet Letter
About the Course
This course was created to help readers of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic, The Scarlet Letter. explore deep, new meanings of the text. The course begins by introducing the importance of literature, and it segues into an introduction of The Scarlet Letter. The following sections outline the poem with summaries of each chapter, commentaries, and questions for reflection or discussion. Each section also contains a dropdown list of the author’s sidebar notes on each scene for further background and analysis.
The writer of this course, which is in the public domain courtesy of The Gospel Coalition (https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/about/), is Dr. Leland Ryken, professor of English emeritus at Wheaton College, Illinois, and literary stylist for the ESV translation of the Bible (Crossway, 2001). For more details on Professor Ryken please follow this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Ryken, and/or this one: https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/programs/english/faculty/faculty-emeriti/leland-ryken/
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