From the Book - New edition.
The story behind the story
Jamie Barlowe on "Hester-Prynne-ism"
Patricia Crain discusses allegory, adultery, and alphabetization
David S. Reynolds on Hawthorne's revision of history
Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet examine Hawthorne's dating errors
Monika E. Elbert considers Hester's A
Shari Benstock on the mother-child relationship in the novel
Brook Thomas on Mr. Prynne
Laura Doyle explores Hawthorne's two histories
Jane F. Thrailkill on the doctor and the minister
Gale Temple evaluates masculine ambivalence in The scarlet letter.
From the Book - Updated edition.
Introduction / Harold Bloom --
Sowing dragons' teeth : personal life and revolution in The scarlet letter / Joel Pfister --
The a-politics of ambiguity / Sacvan Bercovitch --
The scarlet letter and the language of history : past imperfect, present imperfect, future perfect? / Charles Swann --
Hester's skepticism, Hawthorne's faith; or, what does a woman doubt? instituting the American romance tradition / Emily Miller Budick --
"Apples of the thoughts and fancies" : nature as narrator in The scarlet letter / Janice B. Daniel --
Hawthorne and the making of the middle class / Michael T. Gilmore --
The dark labyrinth of mind : Hawthorne, Hester, and the ironies of racial mothering / Leland S. Person --
The matter of form / Richard Kopley --
From artifact to archetype / Margaret Reid.