id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
concept-299	none	The Market Place of The Scarlet Letter: Hawthorne and Hester as Artist Objects	2008	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5458	169	51	Less blatantly but just as tellingly as the literal trade of his name, Hawthorne recognizes his status as artist object in his self introduction within ―The Custom House.‖ He chooses with this introduction to insert himself into the text as a version of his true self affected by fiction. In ―The Custom House,‖ Hawthorne laments his precarious quandary as an American artist who is caught between public expectations for the concrete merchandise of his art and private beliefs for the meaning and aesthetics of his art.	cache/concept-299.pdf	txt/concept-299.txt