Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stanton, Robert J. “Secondary Studies on Hawthorne's ‘Young Goodman Brown,’ 1845-1975: A Bibliography.” Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Notes 33, No. 1 (January 1976): 32-44, 52.

Comprehensive bibliography of criticism on the story from 1845 to 1975.

CRITICISM

Apseloff, Stanford and Marilyn. “‘Young Goodman Brown’: The Goodman.” American Notes and Queries 21, No. 7 (March 1983): 103-06.

Quoting sources of Scottish folklore, assert that the word Goodman was used to refer to the Devil, which gives a dual meaning to Hawthorne's tale.

Capps, Jack L. “Hawthorne's ‘Young Goodman Brown.’” Explicator 40, No. 3 (Spring 1982): 25.

Suggests that the third virtue of the Christian tryptich, charity—one not mentioned in the tale—is precisely what Brown is lacking to survive his experience with the Devil.

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