Chapter 1 Hawthorne's life 1
Chapter 2 Hawthorne's contexts 16
Puritanism 16
Transcendentalism 20
Feminism and scribbling women 22
Race,slavery,and abolition 25
Nineteenth-century manhood 30
Chapter 3 Hawthorne's short fiction 33
"Alice Doane's Appeal” 36
"Roger Malvin's Burial" 37
"The Gentle Boy" 40
"Young Goodman Brown" 42
"The May-Pole of Merry Mount" 44
"Endicott and the Red Cross" 45
"The Minister's Black Veil" 47
"Wakefield" 49
"My Kinsman,Major Molineux" 50
"Monsieur du Miroir" 52
"The New Adam and Eve" 55
"The Birth-mark" 56
"The Artist of the Beautiful" 58
"Rappaccini's Daughter" 59
"Drowne's Wooden Image" 63
Chapter 4 Hawthorne's novels 66
The ScarletLetter 66
The House of the Seven Gables 81
The Blithedale Romance 91
The Marble Faun 97
Chapter 5 Hawthorne's critics 114
Biography 114
Criticism 116
Notes 128
Guide to further reading 135
Index 140