A note on the texts
Preface
Chapter 1 Hawthornes life
Chapter 2 Hawthornes contexts
Puritanism
Transcendentalism
Feminism and scribbling women
Race, slavery, and abolition
Nineteenth-century manhood
Chapter 3 Hawthornes short fiction
"Alice Doanes Appeal"
"Roger Malvins Burial"
"The Gentle Boy"
"Young Goodman Brown"
"The May-Pole of Merry Mount"
"Endicott and the Red Cross"
"The Ministers Black Veil"
"Wakefield"
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux"
"Monsieur du Miroir"
"The New Adam and Eve"
"The Birth-mark"
"The Artist of the Beautiful"
"Rappaccinis Daughter"
"Drownes Wooden Image"
Chapter 4 Hawthornes novels
The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
The Blithedale Romance
The Marble Faun
Chapter 5 Hawthornes critics
Biography
Criticism
Notes
Guide to further reading
Index