The text of The Scarlet Letter
Backgrounds and sources. Hawthorne's notebooks and journals : Notebooks: seeds of the plot ; Notebooks: Pearl and Una ; The heart of Hawthorne's journals
A history of Boston / Caleb H. Snow
Annals of Salem [laws governing adultery] / Joseph B. Felt
[Witches, the black man, and the black book] / Cotton Mather
The murder of Sir Thomas Overbury
The New England sources of The Scarlet Letter / Charles Ryskamp
Hester Prynne in history / Charles Boewe and Murray G. Murphey
Endicott and the red cross / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Essays in criticism. [Densely dark, with a spot of vivid colour] / Henry James
[The Genius of The Scarlet Letter] / Anthony Trollope
[This New England Faust] / W.C. Brownell
[The absolved, the redeemed, and the damned: a triangle] / Herbert Gorman
[Freud and the triangle] / Régis Michaud
The mind and art of Nathaniel Hawthorne / Robert E. Spiller
[From allegory to symbolism] / F.O. Matthiessen
[Structured prefiguration: motif and symbol] / Leland Schubert
Scarlet A minus / Frederic I. Carpenter
[Between Two Worlds] / Mark Van Doren
[Realms of being and dramatic irony] / Richard Harter Fogle
[Three orders: natural, moral, and symbolic] / Hyatt Howe Waggoner
The return into time: Hawthorne / R.W.B. Lewis
Five acts of The Scarlet Letter / Malcolm Cowley
[Transformations: Hester and Arthur] / Roy R. Male
[Puritan humanism vs. romantic naturalism] / Randall Stewart
The power of blackness: [Hawthorne's fiction] / Harry Levin
"Solitude, and love, and anguish": the tragic design of The Scarlet Letter / Seymour L. Gross
Hester's double providence: the scarlet letter and the green / Daniel G. Hoffman.
