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Merry Old England and Hawthorne's "The May-Pole of Merry Mount"
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This is a paper that was published in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 33:1 (Spring 2011): 41-71. It argues that "The May-pole of Merry Mount" is illustrates what Merry Old England meant to Hawthorne, and thus is essential to understanding his later work, especially The Scarlet Letter.
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The Conquest of Canaan: Suppression of Merry Mount Nineteenth-Century Fiction 40The Golden Bough at Merry Mount
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A few critics assume that Hawthorne is writing the same allegory that Endicott is livingMoral Choice in 'The May-Pole of Merry Mount
Doubleday 94-101. A few critics assume that Hawthorne is writing the same allegory
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