Introduction: The nature of Hawthorne's pastoral romances -- Investigating Hawthorne's nonfiction nature writing -- Observing the laboratory of nature in Hawthorne's short fiction -- Reading nature and the human body in The scarlet letter -- Mapping blood and biology in The house of the seven gables -- Et in Arcadia ego: adaptation and natural limits in The Blithedale romance -- Exploring the ruins of the human animal in The marble faun -- Postscript: Hawthorne's unfinished romances.
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