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Contents
Introduction
The Text of The Blithedale Romance
Backgrounds and Sources
HAWTHORNE'S LIFE AT BROOK FARM
Nathaniel Hawthorne · From His Letters and Journals
Ralph Waldo Emerson · From His Journals
HAWTHORNE'S ATTITUDE TOWARD MESMERISM
Nathaniel Hawthorne · From His Letters
HAWTHORNE'S USE OF The American Notebooks in
The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne · From His Journals
[Old Moodie]
[Priscilla]
[Coverdale's Hermitage]
[A Farewell to the Swine]
[Views from Coverdale's Window]
[A Boston Saloon]
[The Masqueraders]
[Zenobia's Drowning]
EMERSON'S VIEWS ON REFORM, ROMANTIC IDEALISM, AND
BROOK FARM
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Historic Notes of Life and Letters in
New England
Criticism
CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
From the Christian Examiner (September 1852)
From the Westminster Review (October 1852)
From Brownson's Quarterly Review (October 1852)
From the Athenaeum (July 1852)
From the Westminster Review (October 1852)
From the Spectator (July 1852)
From the North British Review (November 1853)
From Graham's Magazine (September 1852)
From the Atlantic Monthly (May 1860)
From the New Monthly Magazine (June 1853)
From the Westminster Review (October 1852)
From the American Whig Review (November 1852)
From the American Whig Review (November 1852)
From Blackwood's Magazine (May 1855)
From the New Monthly Magazine (June 1853)
MODERN ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
Irving Howe · Hawthorne: Pastoral and Politics
Roy R. Male · The Pastoral Wasteland: The Blithedale Romance
A. N. Kaul · [Community and Society]
Leo B. Levy · The Blithedale Romance: Hawthorne's "Voyage
Through Chaos"
Hans-Joachim Lang · The Blithedale Romance: A History of
Ideas Approach Philip Rahv · The Dark Lady of Salem
Barbara F. Lefcowitz and Allan B. Lefcowitz · Some Rents in
the Veil: New Light on Priscilla and Zenobia Nina Baym · The Blithedale Romance: A Radical Reading
Hyatt H. Waggoner · [Fire and Veils: The Texture of The
Blithedale Romance] Frederick C. Crews · Turning the Affair into a Ballad
Kelley Griffith, Jr. · Form in The Blithedale Romance
Louis Auchincloss · The Blithedale Romance: A Study of Form
and Point of View
James H. Justus · Hawthorne's Coverdale: Character and Art in
The Blithedale Romance
Kent Bales · The Allegory and the Radical Romantic Ethic of The
Blithedale Romance
Bibliography
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