The topos of the forest in N. Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”
... contradicted by their act of cutting down the forest, which is depicted in the novel as a locus amoenus. The forest serves as a transformative space in the lives of the main characters; notably, only Hester Prynne successfully undergoes the “forest initiation.... ... and addressing existing gaps in scholarship, particularly the exploration of spatial poetics in Hawthorne’s work.
Vasileva E.V.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter”, spacial poetics, forest, the topos of the forest
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10.5922/vestnikpsy-2025-2-5