Embroidering the Scarlet a: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

by Janet Mason Ellerby

Book Overview

Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the "fallen woman" from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child. Interweaving her own experience as a pregnant teen forced to surrender her daughter and pledge secrecy for decades, Ellerby interrogates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472052632
• ISBN13: 9780472052639
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"