From the Book - Second edition.
The texts of The Scarlet Letter and other writings --
Other writings : Mrs. Hutchinson ; Endicott and the Red Cross ; Young Goodman Brown ; The Minister's Black Veil ; The birthmark --
Contexts : Passages from Hawthorne's Notebooks and Letters : From Life of Franklin Pierce (1852) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Criticism : Nineteenth-century reviews of The Scarlet Letter : The Scarlet Letter, Literary World (March 30, 1850) / Evert A. Duyckinck ; Review of New Books, Graham's Magazine (May 1850) / Edwin Percy Whipple ; The Scarlet Letter, North American Review (July 1850) / Anne W. Abbott ; The Scarlett Letter, Saturday Visiter (Sept. 28, 1850) / Jane Swisshelm ; Literary notices and criticisms, Brownson's Quarterly (Oct. 1850) / Orestes Brownson ; The writings of Hawthorne, Church Review (Jan. 1851) / Arthur Cleveland Coxe ; The works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Universalist Quarterly (July 1851) / Amory Dwight Mayo --
Review essay : Antebellum feminsts on Hawthorne: Reconsidering the reception of The Scarlet Letter / Robert S. Levine --
Puritan background and sources : The New England sources of The Scarlet Letter / Charles Ryskamp ; A red-hot A and a lusting devine: Sources for The Scarlet Letter / Frederick Newberry ; Hawthorne's Model of Christian charity / Kristin Boudreau ; The Scarlet Letter of the law: Hawthorne and criminal justice / Laura Hanft Korobkin ; "A" for Atlantic: The colonizing force of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter / Laura Doyle --
The Custom-House : "The Custom-House," The Scarlet Letter, and Hawthorne's separation from Salem / John Franzosa ; Nathaniel Hawthorne and the anxieties of the archive / Eric Savoy --
Nineteenth-century backgrounds : Hawthorne and the "Scribbling Women:" Publishing The Scarlet Letter in the Nineteenth-century United States / Michael Winship ; Citizen Hester: The Scarlet Letter as civic myth / Brook Thomas ; "The Puritans of today": The anti-whig argument of The Scarlet Letter / Michael Ryan ; The A-politics of ambiguity / Sacvan Bercovitch ; The obliquity of signs: The Scarlet Letter / Millicent Bell ; The Scarlet Letter and Revolutions abroad / Larry J. Reynolds ; Hawthorne, Pearl, and the primal sin of culture / Emily Miller Budick --
Gender and sexuality : Nathaniel Hawthorne and the feminists: The Scarlet Letter / Louise DeSalvo ; "Speak thou for me!": The "Strange earnestness" of The Scarlet Letter / Thomas R. Mitchell --
"A" is for abolition?: Race, authorship, The Scarlet Letter / Jay Grossman --
The Scarlet Letter Films : Demi's Hester and Hester's demi(se): The (New) Scarlet Letter and its spectators / Jamie Barlowe --
Other writings : Anne Hutchinson / Amy Schrager Lang --
Hawthorne's demystification of history in "Endicott and the Road Cross" / John Nickel ; "Young Goodman Brown" and the Mathers / John Ronan ; The problem of history in "The Minister's Black Veil" / J. Hillis Miller ; Hawthorne's Mister Hooper: The veil of Ham? / John F. Birk ; Women beware science: "The Birthmark" / Judith Fetterley ; The invisible hand made visible: "The Birth-mark" / Cindy Weinstein.