The Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne

The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume establish new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Hawthorne. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on Hawthorne's classic works, and on topics such as Hawthorne's relationship to history, women, politics, and early America. It brings together a team of leading international scholars to offer the most comprehensive introduction available to Hawthorne's work and life.

Contents:

Hawthorne's labors in Concord / Larry J. Reynolds 
Hawthorne as cultural theorist / Joel Pfister
Hawthorne and American masculinity / T. Walter Herbert 
Hawthorne and the question of women / Alison Easton 
Hawthorne, modernity, and the literary sketch / Kristie Hamilton 
Hawthorne's American history / Gillian Brown 
Hawthorne and the writing of childhood / Karen Sánchez-Eppler
Love and politics, sympathy and justice in The scarlet letter / Brook Thomas 
The marvelous queer interiors of The house of the seven gables / Christopher Castiglia 
Sympathy and reform in The Blithedale romance / Robert S. Levine 
Perplexity, sympathy, and the question of the human : a reading of The marble faun / Emily Miller Budick 
Whose Hawthorne? / Gordon Hutner.