Table of Contents:
  • Hawthorne's labors in Concord / Larry J. Reynolds
  • Hawthorne as cultural theorist / Joel Pfister
  • Hawthorne and American masculinity / T. Walter Herbert
  • Hawthorne and the question of women / Alison Easton
  • Hawthorne, modernity, and the literary sketch / Kristie Hamilton
  • Hawthorne's American history / Gillian Brown
  • Hawthorne and the writing of childhood / Karen Sánchez-Eppler
  • Love and politics, sympathy and justice in The scarlet letter / Brook Thomas
  • The marvelous queer interiors of The house of the seven gables / Christopher Castiglia
  • Sympathy and reform in The Blithedale romance / Robert S. Levine
  • Perplexity, sympathy, and the question of the human : a reading of The marble faun / Emily Miller Budick
  • Whose Hawthorne? / Gordon Hutner.