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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Examinations -- Study guides
Short story
Short story -- Examinations -- Study guides
Short story -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Examinations
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Examinations -- Study guides
Short story
Short story -- Examinations -- Study guides
Short story -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Table of Contents
From the Book
Substance and shadow : language and meaning in The house of the seven gables / Clark Griffith
The return into time : The marble faun / R.W.B. Lewis
The ethical dimension of "The custom house" / Larzer Ziff
"The maypole of Merry Mount" and the folklore of love / Daniel G. Hoffman
The Blithedale romance and the Puritan tradition / A.N. Kaul
The logic of compulsion in "Roger Malvin's burial" / Frederick C. Crews
The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's comedy / John Caldwell Stubbs
The marble faun : Hawthorne's elegy for art / Nina Baym
The problem of faith in "Young Goodman Brown" / Leo B. Levy
Hawthorne's romanticism : "The artist of the beautiful" / Sheldon W. Liebman
Beatrice Rappaccini : a victim of male love and horror / Richard Brenzo
New and old tales : The scarlet letter / Richard H. Brodhead.
"Bitter Honey" : Miles Coverdale as narrator in The Blithedale romance / Keith Carabine
The matter of America : "My kinsman, Major Molineux" / Michael J. Colacurcio.
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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.
From the Book
Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Plot summary of "Young Goodman Brown"
List of characters in "Young Goodman Brown"
Critical views on "Young Goodman Brown." Henry James on imagination and allegory ; Darrel Abel on the pink ribbon as symbol ; Joan Elizabeth Easterly on Goodman Brown's spiritual failure ; Walter Shear on time and social fantasy ; Benjamin Franklin V on the Puritan catechism
Plot summary of "The minister's black veil"
List of characters in "The minister's black veil"
Critical views on "The minister's black veil." James R. Mellow on Hawthorne's veil ; Richard H. Brodhead on Hawthorne and Melville ; William Freedman on the veil as symbol ; Edgar A. Dryden on the story as parable ; Samuel Chase Coale on Hooper and the veil
Plot summary of "The Maypole of Merry Mount"
List of characters in "The Maypole of Merry Mount"
Critical views on "The Maypole of Merry Mount." Harry Levin on the setting of the story ; Terrence Martin on conflict in the story ; John F. Birk on Milton's influence on the story ; David D. Joplin on Hawthorne and Milton ; Michael J. Colacurcio on the story as allegory
Plot summary of "Rappaccini's daughter"
List of characters in "Rappaccini's daughter"
Critical views on "Rappaccini's daughter." Jac Tharpe on Beatrice ; John N. Miller on false leads in the story ; Ronald J. Nelson on sources for Pietro Baglioni ; Carol M. Bensick on modern interpretations ; Patricia M. Roger on the physical and the spiritual ; Anna Brickhouse on the Mexican genealogy of the story
Plot summary of "Roger Malvin's burial"
List of characters in "Roger Malvin's burial"
Critical views on "Roger Malvin's burial." Patricia Anne Carlson on setting and interpretation ; Shifra Hochberg on the significance of names in the story ; G. R. Thompson on strategies of narrative intervention ; Michael J. Colacurcio on Reuben Bourne's logic ; Nancy Bunge on the theme of the story.
From the Book
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.
From the Book
Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne / Norman Jean Lutz
An introduction to some elements of Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction / Neil Heims
Early writings / Henry James
"Certain circumstances" : Hawthorne and the interest of history / Michael J. Colacurcio.
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