From the Book - Updated edition.
The artists of the novels: Coverdale, Holgrave, Kenyon / Millicent Bell --
Homely witchcraft / Frederick C. Crews --
"The scribbler of bygone days": perceptions of time in Hawthorne's "custom-house" / Jane Donahue Eberwein --
"The dead live again": Hawthorne's palingenic art / David C.Cody --
Intercourse with the world: the Blithedale romance / Edwin Haviland Miller --
The romance of mesmerism: Hawthorne's medium of romance / Samuel Coale --
Narrative transformations of romanticism / Michael Dunne --
"That look beneath": Hawthorne's portrait of benevolence in The house of the seven gables / Joseph Flibbert --
The tongue of flame / Dan McCall --
Hawthorne's "mad, merry stream of human life": the Roman carnival as apocalypse in The marble faun / David B. Kesterson --
A poem by Lowell / Richard Kopley.
Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne --
[pt. 1]. Plot summary of The scarlet letter --
List of characters in The scarlet letter --
Critical views of The scarlet letter: --
Anthony Trollope on satire and sympathy --
Henry James on an American literary event --
Mark Van Doren on the conflict in Hawthorne --
William Bysshe Stein on Chillingworth and Faust --
Charles Child Walcutt on the symbols of nature --
Roy R. Male on Pearl and Chillingworth as symbols --
Richard Harter Fogle on the four states of being --
Frederick C. Crews on Dimmersdale's libido --
Michael Colacurcio on Hester Prynne and Anne Hutchinson --
Sheridan Baker on Dimmesdale's scarlet a --
[pt. 2]. Plot summary of The House of the Seven Gables --
List of characters in The House of the Seven Gables --
Critical views of The House of the Seven Gables: --
Lawrence Sargent Hall on inherited sin --
Clark Griffith on Hawthorne's traditional character types --
Maurice Beebe on symbolism of the House and its occupants --
Richard C. Carpenter on the ending of the novel --
Michael Davitt Bell on exhibiting the character of hope --
Michael T. Gilmore on Hepzibah's discomfort --
Bruce Michelson on Hawthorne's ghosts --
Peter Buitenhuis on the character of Phoebe --
William J. Scheick on Hawthorne's ironic use of Gothic convention --
Susan S. Williams on pictures and portraits --
[pt. 3]. Plot summary of The marble faun --
List of characters in The marble faun --
Critical views of The marble faun: --
R.W.B. Lewis on Donatello as hero of the hopeful --
Peter G. Beidler on the change in Donatello --
Sacvan Bercovitch on Hilda's denial --
Joel Porte on the relationship between individual experience and its reflection in art --
Nina Baym on Kenyon's story --
James G. Janssen on the transformation of Donatello --
Darrell Abel on the contrasts between the Spectre with the faun --
Evan Carton on Catholicism and the white light.