Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Hawthorne, Updike, and the Immoral Imagination
- 1 John Updike and the Existentialist Imagination
- I The “Mythic Immensity” of the Parental Imagination
- II Collective Hallucination in the Adulterous Society
- III Imaginative Lust in the Scarlet Letter Trilogy
- IV Female Power and the Female Imagination
- V The Remembering Imagination
- Conclusion: Updike, Realism, and Postmodernism
- Bibliography
- Index
- Credits
III - Imaginative Lust in the Scarlet Letter Trilogy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Hawthorne, Updike, and the Immoral Imagination
- 1 John Updike and the Existentialist Imagination
- I The “Mythic Immensity” of the Parental Imagination
- II Collective Hallucination in the Adulterous Society
- III Imaginative Lust in the Scarlet Letter Trilogy
- IV Female Power and the Female Imagination
- V The Remembering Imagination
- Conclusion: Updike, Realism, and Postmodernism
- Bibliography
- Index
- Credits
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- Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction , pp. 105 - 106Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017