On Hawthorne

Series Introduction vii
Hawthorne and Literary Nationalism (1941) / Neal F. Doubleday 1
Suggestions for Interpreting The Marble Faun (1941) / Dorothy Waples 8
The "Case" of Tobias Pearson: Hawthorne and dthe Ambiguities (1950) / Louise Dauner 24
The Double Symbol (1951) / Harold Orel 33
Hawthorne's Revision of "The Gentle Boy" (1954) / Seymour L. Gross 39
Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter: " The Dark Problem of this Life" (1955) / Hugh N. Maclean 52
The Gharacter of Flame: The Function of Pearl in The Scarlet Letter (1956) / Anne Marie McNamara 65
A New Reading of The Blithdale Romance (1957) / Frederick C. Crews 82
Hawthorne's Allegory of Science: "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1960) / Edward H. Rosenberry 106
Shadows of Doubt: Specter Evidence in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" (1962) / David Levin 114
Hester Prynne's Little Pearl: Sacred and Profane Love (1968) / Robert E. Whelan 123
Hawthorne and Nineteenth-Century Perfectionism (1973) / Claudia D. Johnson 141
Hawthorne's Public Decade and the Values of Home (1974) / Terence Martin 152
Hawthorne's Coverdale: Character and Art in The Blithedale Romance (1975) / James H. Justus 164
Beyond Convention: The Dynamics of Imagery and Response in Hawthorne's Early Sense of Evil (1980) / David Downing 180
Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Mother: A Biographical Speculation (1982) / Nina Bryan 194
The Scarlet Letter and Revolutions Abroad (1985) / Larry J. Reynolds 221
Nature and Frontier in "Roger Malvin's Burial" (1988) / James McIntosh 245
Nathanel Hawthorne's Intention in "Chiefly About War Matters" (1989) / James Bense 262
Index 277