Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-213) and index.
Contents:
Hawthorne and the real / Millicent Bell -- Hawthorne and politics (again) : words and deeds in the 1850s / Michael T. Gilmore -- "Strangely ajar with the human race" : Hawthorne, slavery, and the question of moral responsibility / Larry J. Reynolds -- Hawthorne and the problem of "American" fiction : the example of The scarlet letter / Lawrence Buell -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and transnationality / John Carlos Rowe -- Revisiting Hawthorne's feminism / Nina Baym -- Hawthorne's early tales : male authorship, domestic violence, and female readers / Leland S. Person -- Working women and creative doubles in Hawthorne's Tales and The marble faun / David Leverenz -- Estranged allegiances in Hawthorne's unfinished romances / Rita K. Gollin -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer; or, The fleeing of the biographied / Brenda Wineapple.
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