Contents
- Introduction
- A Note on the Text and Annotations
- Acknowledgments
- The Text of The House of the Seven Gables
- Contexts
- HISTORY
- Thomas Maule • From Truth Held Forth and Maintained
- Robert Calef • From More Wonders of the Invisible World
- Joseph B. Felt • From Annals of Salem
- Charles W. Upham • From Lectures on Witchcraft
- Nathaniel Hawthorne • From The American Notebooks
- HAWTHORNE AND THE LITERARY SKETCH
- Nathaniel Hawthorne • Alice Doane’s Appeal
- Nathaniel Hawthorne • The Old Apple-Dealer
- HOUSES
- William Andrus Alcott • From The House I Live In
- Edgar Allan Poe • The Fall of the House of Usher
- Andrew Jackson Downing • [American Country Houses]
- Catharine E. Beecher • [American Housekeepers]
- Margaret Fuller • From The Great Lawsuit
- J.H. Agnew • From Woman’s Offices and Influence
- DAGUERROTYPY AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
- Nathaniel Parker Willis • From The Pencil of Nature: A New Discovery
- Anonymous • From Daguerreotypes
- Ralph Waldo Emerson • [Sea and Shore]
- T. S. Arthur • The Daguerreotypist
- Frederick Douglass • [Our Photographic Process]
- Charles Poyen • [Animal Magnetism]
- Nathaniel Hawthorne • [Love is the True Magnetism]
- Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville • From On the Penitentiary
- System in the United States
- Nathaniel Hawthorne • [Railroads]
- Criticism
- CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES
- Nathaniel Hawthorne • From Letter to Hortatio Bridge, March 15, 1851
- Herman Melville • Letter to Hawthorne, [April 16], 1851
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick • Letter to Mrs. K.S. Minot, May 4, 1851
- Anonymous • [Sombre Coloring]
- Harriet Beecher Stowe • [A Succession of Rembrandt Pictures]
- SELECTIONS FROM CLASSIC STUDIES
- Anthony Trollope • [A Ghastly Spirit of Drollery]
- Henry James • [The House of the Seven Gables]
- William Dean Howells • [Dim, Forlorn Wraiths]
- D. H. Lawrence • [Vacuum Cleaner]
- F. O. Mathiessen • [Energy of Disease]
- Hyatt H. Waggoner • [Curves, Circles, and Cycles]
- A. N. Kaul • [The Rising Democracy]
- Frederick C. Crews • [Imperfect Repression]
- Nina Baym • [Holgrave]
- Eric J. Sundquist • [Mirror with a Memory]
- RECENT CRITICISM, 1981–PRESENT
- Michael T. Gilmore • The Artist and the Marketplace in The House of the Seven Gables
- Walter Benn Michaels • Romance and Real Estate
- Gillian Brown • From Women’s Work and Bodies in The House of the Seven Gables
- Richard H. Millington • [The Triple Beginning of The House of the Seven Gables]
- Alan Trachtenberg • Seeing and Believing: Hawthorne’s Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven Gables
- David Anthony • Class, Culture, and the Trouble with White Skin in Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables
- Amy Schrager Lang • From Home, in the Better Sense: The Model Woman, the Middle Class, and the Harmony of Interests
- Christopher Castiglia • The Marvelous Queer Interiors of The House of The Seven Gables
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography
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