Table of Contents:
  • Hawthorne and the real / Millicent Bell
  • Hawthorne and politics (again) : words and deeds in the 1850s / Michael T. Gilmore
  • "Strangely ajar with the human race" : Hawthorne, slavery, and the question of moral responsibility / Larry J. Reynolds
  • Hawthorne and the problem of "American" fiction : the example of The scarlet letter / Lawrence Buell
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne and transnationality / John Carlos Rowe
  • Revisiting Hawthorne's feminism / Nina Baym
  • Hawthorne's early tales : male authorship, domestic violence, and female readers / Leland S. Person
  • Working women and creative doubles in Hawthorne's Tales and The marble faun / David Leverenz
  • Estranged allegiances in Hawthorne's unfinished romances / Rita K. Gollin
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer; or, The fleeing of the biographied / Brenda Wineapple.