Samenvatting - The Outsider in Global Anglophone Literature (1160FLWTTA)

notes the outsider in global anglophone literature (2025)


Short summaries


Bartleby
by Herman Melville
published in 1856


Melville
●​ also wrote Moby Dick (actually about democracy)


book
●​ “I would prefer not to”
●​ full title: Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
●​ we know Bartleby only through the lawyer
●​ some obsession with the number 3 in the story
●​ ironic reversal of the power relation
●​ Dead Letter office




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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
published in 1850


Hawthorne
●​ friend of Melville
●​ Brook Farm → The Blithedale Romance (1852)
●​ lived in Salem (family’s involvement in the Salem witch trials)
●​ married Sophia Peabody (sister → Elizabeth)


book
●​ Hester Prynne, daughter is Pearl
●​ reverend Arthur Dimmesdale
●​ Roger Chillingworth
●​ Jonathan Pue Surveyor/’internal’ author (custom house)
●​ meaning of the A


Salem witch trials (John Hathorne)
Concord years: transcendentalism
puritanism (suppression of the private self)
antinomianism (Anne Hutchinson)




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