Brandorff 1 Amanda Brandorff ENC 1102 Professor Angie Jacobs April 1, 2014 Annotated Bibliography for Nathaniel Hawthornes

short story The Birth-Mark Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Birth-Mark. The Norton Introduction to Literature: Eleventh Edition. Richardson-Jones, Spencer. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2013. Pages 290-301. Print. This work is where the story The Birth-mark was found. It also provides a brief background on the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story is about the scientist philosopher Aylmer who gives it all up to marry the beautiful Georgiana, although she has a disturbing mark on her face. He tries to get the mark removed putting humanity against science. This source was a great source for me to use for my paper, it contained the short story The Birth-Mark. This is a credible source for me to use during the writing of my paper it is the book we use in my college composition class. This is an objective source that contains no bias, with the goal of the source being to teach about different aspects of writing in short stories and poetry. I will definitely be using this source in my paper using direct quotes from the text of the story itself to support my research. This is the primary source for my research project.

Howard, Jeffrey. Nathaniel Hawthornes The Birth-Mark. EBSCO Host. Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012. Web. 4 April 2014. This source is a short review of the story The Birth-Mark. At the beginning the review Howard gives a summary of the story and talks about the symbolism of the mark. This

Brandorff 2 review also touches on masculinity and womanhood and how the removal of the mark is giving the man what he needs. The author talks about the importance of the mark and the specific significance of the shape of the mark. Other topics covered are also love and dreams. This source is a lot shorter then most of my other source but gives good information in its text. This source is credible because I got it off of a Literary Reference Center database referred to me by my teacher. This is a bias source because it is a literary critique. The goal of the source is to give a review of the short story The Birth-Mark. This source isnt going to be used as often in my essay as the story itself, but it is still a good source to support the use of symbolism and theme.

Rosenburg, Liz. The Best That Earth Could Offer: The Birth-Mark, A Newlyweds Story. EBSCO Host. Ebsco Publishing, 1993. Web. 7 April 2014. This source is an essay about human nature and love. It also goes into detail about Aylmers passion for science. This essays gives examples of how The Birth-Mark can relate to other stories. This source compares to my other sources in how it might not be as helpful as some of the others. It is a credible source because I found it on Literature Resources from Gale Database. This essay can be both objective and bias. In my opinion when writing a criticism it is going to have a lot of the authors opinion. But this essay supports the opinion by using other stories to compare it too and referring back to the text its self. The goal of this source is to inform readers about Nathaniel Hawthornes The Birth-Mark. This could possibly be one of those sources I dont use in my paper, its good but I dont think the information in it will support my proposal as much as some of the others.

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Rucker, Mary E. Science and Art in Hawthornes The Birth-Mark. JSTOR. University of California Press, 1987. Web. 31 March 2014.

In this article the author is talking about the main character Aylmer, she talks about how he is an artist and also touches on his ethical aesthetic perspective. It also speaks of Hawthornes moral issues and the different aspects of humanity such ethics, flaws, and imperfection that he has the story encompass. Rucker brings up Aylmer being a romantic artist and how he is trying to make his wife an object of perfection because of his love for her. This source wasnt as useful as some of the others. It gives different views then many of the other sources that I have for my paper and isnt necessarily focusing on the same aspects I am in my research. This is a credible source because I found it on the Valencia College database. The article is objective and bias it gives explanations of its findings, but still has a lot of opinions in it. The goal of the source is to analyze the short story The Birth-Mark and its different themes. This source will help me with my paper because it explores different themes of the short story, which is one of the literary aspects I am going to focus on.

Youra, Steven. The Fatal Hand: A Sign of Confusion in Hawthornes The Birth-Mark. Gale Group. American Transcendental Quarterly, 1986. Web. 7 April 2014.

In this essay the author is talking about the different confusions throughout the story The Birth-Mark. It also goes into the significance of the hand shape of the mark and how it relates to mans hand in nature. This essay also highlights a great summary and explanation of

Brandorff 4 Hawthornes short story. Towards the end the author is showing symbolism of the mark and Georgianas humanity and mortality. This source can compare to my other sources because it will definitely help me while writing my paper. It is different from the others because it talks about the different things that are confusing in the story, which I havent seen in any of my other sources. This is a credible source because I got it off of a Literature Resource Database. I think the essay is objective because the author uses a bunch of different sources in his writing and there isnt much emphasis on opinions. The goal of the source is to explain different aspects of the short story The BirthMark.