Nathaniel Hawthorne (Critical Insights)

Cover......Page 1
About This Volume......Page 2
Career, Life, and Influence......Page 3
On Nathaniel Hawthorne......Page 4
Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne......Page 10
The Paris Review Perspective......Page 16
Critical Contexts......Page 19
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Canon of American Literature......Page 20
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Critical Reception......Page 34
The Burden of Secret Sin:
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Fiction......Page 49
Nathaniel Hawthorne and American
Romanticism......Page 60
Critical Readings......Page 74
The Scarlet Letter......Page 75
Chiefiy about Coverdale:
The Blithedale Romance......Page 92
Re-figuring Revelations:
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Lette......Page 110
Hawthorne as Essayist:
Our Old Home and
"Chiefly About War Matters ".......Page 129
"A Small Heap of Glittering Fragments'
Hawthorne's Discontent with
the Short Story Form......Page 154
Hawthorne and Nineteenth-Century
Perfectionism......Page 169
Progress and Providence in
The House of the Seven Gables......Page 182
Narrative Techniques and the
Oral Tradition in The Scarlet Letter......Page 196
Hawthorne and the Sublime......Page 213
Hawthome, the Fall, and the
Psychology of Maturity......Page 227
Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Mother:
A Biographical Speculation......Page 238
Agnostic Tensions in Hawthorne's
Short Stories......Page 268
Resources......Page 301
Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Life......Page 302
Works by Nathaniel Hawthome......Page 304
Bibliography......Page 306
About the Editor......Page 309
Contributors......Page 311
Acknowledgments......Page 314
Index......Page 316