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