The Scarlet Letter

In addition to the text of the first edition of the novel, the New Riverside Edition ofThe Scarlet Lettercontains a wide variety of contextual materials and scholarly essays. "Contexts" includes additional writings and letters by Hawthorne, as well as essays on the New England sources of the novel and the novel's publication history. "Criticism" contains early reviews of the novel and critical readings from the 19th century (such as an excerpt from Henry James' bookHawthorne) to the present.

List of Illustrations

vii

About This Series

viii

Introduction

1

(8)

A Note on the Text

9

(2)

Contexts

11

(66)

Stories and Notebooks

13

(21)

``Mrs. Hutchinson''

14

(5)

``The Minister's Black Veil: A Parable''

19

(11)

From ``Endicott and the Red Cross''

30

(2)

From The American Notebooks

32

(2)

Letters

34

(6)

To George S. Hillard (Mar. 5, 1849)

35

(1)

To James T. Fields (Jan. 15, 1850)

36

(1)

To James T. Fields (Jan. 20, 1850)

37

(1)

To James T. Fields (undated draft)

38

(1)

To Horatio Bridge (Feb. 4, 1850)

38

(2)

Historical Background

40

(1)

``The New England Sources of The Scarlet Letter''

40

(15)

Charles Ryskamp

``The Scarlet Letter and Revolutions Abroad''

55

(13)

Larry J. Reynolds

``Publishing The Scarlet Letter in the Nineteenth-Century United States''

68

(9)

Michael Winship

The Scarlet Letter

77

(196)

``Preface to the Second Edition''

85

(2)

``The Custom-House: Introductory to The Scarlet Letter''

87

(32)

The Scarlet Letter

119

(154)

Criticism

273

(136)

Early Criticism

275

(1)

``[A Psychological Romance]''

276

(1)

Evert A. Duyckinck

``[A True Artist's Certainty of Touch and Expression]''

277

(2)

Edwin Percy Whipple

``[The Magic Power of Hawthorne's Style]''

279

(2)

Anne Abbott

``[An Unfit Subject for Literature]''

281

(3)

Orestes Brownson

Later Criticism

284

(1)

``[Out of the Very Heart of New England]''

284

(3)

Henry James

``[Integrity of Effect]''

287

(4)

F. O. Matthiessen

``[Actively Seizing Upon History]''

291

(16)

Charles Feidelson, Jr.

``The Ruined Wall''

307

(12)

Frederick C. Crews

``Dark Light on the Letter''

319

(5)

Hyatt H. Waggoner

``The Romances''

324

(8)

Rita K. Gollin

``The Major Phase I: 1850''

332

(17)

Nina Baym

``New and Old Tales The Scarlet Letter''

349

(18)

Richard H. Brodhead

``The Access of Power''

367

(8)

Gloria C. Erlich

``[How Culture Empowers Symbolic Form]''

375

(8)

Sacvan Bercovitch

``Romance as Revision The Scarlet Letter''

383

(15)

Richard H. Millington

``Domesticity as Redemption''

398

(11)

Walter Herbert

Chronology

409

(2)

Works Cited

411

(2)

For Further Reading

413

(2)

Related Web Sites

415

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