The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Chronology of Hawthorne's life; Introduction Richard H. Millington; 1. Hawthorne's labors in Concord Larry J. Reynolds; 2. Hawthorne as cultural theorist Joel Pfister; 3. Hawthorne and American masculinity T. Walter Herbert; 4. Hawthorne and the question of women Alison Easton; 5. Hawthorne, modernity, and the literary sketch Kristie Hamilton; 6. Hawthorne's American history Gillian Brown; 7. Hawthorne and the writing of childhood Karen Sanchez-Eppler; 8. Love and politics, sympathy and justice in The Scarlet Letter Brook Thomas; 9. The marvelous queer interiors of The House of the Seven Gables Christopher Castiglia; 10. Sympathy and reform in The Blithedale Romance Robert S. Levine; 11. Perplexity, sympathy, and the question of the human: a reading of The Marble Faun Emily Miller Budick; 12. Whose Hawthorne? Gordon Hutner.

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