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The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

Contents

  • The Text of The Scarlet Letter
  • Note on the Text
  • Other Writings
  • Mrs. Hutchinson
  • Endicott and the Red Cross
  • Young Goodman Brown
  • The Minister’s Black Veil
  • The Birth-mark
  • Contexts
  • Passages from Hawthorne’s Notebooks and Letters
  • Passages from The Life of Franklin Pierce (1852)
  • Criticism
  • NINETEENTH-CENTURY REVIEWS OF THE SCARLET LETTER
    • Evert A. Duyckinck, from Literary World
    • Edwin Percy Whipple, from Graham’s Magazine
    • Anne W. Abbott, from North American Review
    • Orestes Brownson, from Brownson’s Quarterly
    • Arthur Cleveland Coxe, from Church Review
    • Amory Dwight Mayo, from Universalist Quarterly
    • Jane Swisshelm, from Saturday Visitor
  • MODERN CRITICISM
    • Robert S. Levine, Antebellum Feminists on Hawthorne: Reconsidering the Reception of The Scarlet Letter
  • PURITAN BACKGROUND AND SOURCES
    • Charles Ryskamp, The New England Sources for The Scarlet Letter
    • Michael J. Colacurcio, Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson: The Context of The Scarlet Letter
    • Frederick Newberry, A Red-Hot A and Lusting Divine: Sources for The Scarlet Letter
    • Kristin Boudreau, Hawthorne’s Model of Christian Charity
    • Ellen Weinauer, Considering Possession in The Scarlet Letter
  • "THE CUSTOM-HOUSE"
    • John Franzosa, "The Custom-House," The Scarlet Letter, and Hawthorne’s Separation from Salem
    • Douglas Anderson, Jefferson, Hawthorne, and "The Custom-House"
  • THE SCARLET LETTER
    • Michael Winship, Hawthorne and the "Scribbling Women:" Publishing The Scarlet Letter in the Nineteenth-Century United States
    • Laura Hanft Korobkin, The Scarlet Letter of the Law: Hawthorne and Criminal Justice
    • Millicent Bell, The Obliquity of Signs: The Scarlet Letter
    • David Levernz, Mrs. Hawthorne’s Headache: Reading The Scarlet Letter
    • Stephen Railton, The Address of The Scarlet Letter
    • Louise DeSalvo, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Feminists: The Scarlet Letter
    • Robert K. Martin, Hester Prynne, C’est Moi: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Anxieties of Gender
    • T. Walter Herbert, Jr., Nathaniel Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, and The Scarlet Letter: Interactive Selfhoods and the Cultural Construction of Gender
    • Nina Baym, Revisiting Hawthorne’s Feminism
    • Bethany Reid, Narrative of the Captivity and Redemption of Roger Prynne: Rereading The Scarlet Letter
    • Sacvan Bercovitch, The A-Politics of Ambiguity in The Scarlet Letter
    • Michael T. Gilmore, Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class
    • Larry J. Reynolds, The Scarlet Letter and Revolutions Abroad
    • Jean Fagan Yellin, The Scarlet Letter and the Anti-Slavery Feminists
    • Leland S. Person, The Dark Labyrinth of Mind: Hawthorne, Hester, and the Ironies of Racial Mothering
    • Amy Schrager Lang, Anne Hutchinson
    • John Nickel, Hawthorne’s Demystification of History in "Endicott and the Red Cross"
    • David Levin, Shadow of Doubts: Specter Evidence in Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown"
    • Frederick Crews, Escapism in "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister’s Black Veil"
    • J. Hillis Miller, The Problem of History in "The Minister’s Black Veil"
    • Judith Fetterley, Women Beware Science: "The Birthmark"
    • Cindy Weinstein, The Invisible Hand Made Visible: "The Birthmark"
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography