Table of Contents

Volume 1 The contemporary context: the early work - "Fanshawe" (1928), tales included in "The Token" (1831-1837), "Twice-told tales" (1837) and other writng, "The Gentle Boy", "A Thrice Told Tale" (1839), "Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth" (1841), "Liberty Tree: With the Last Words of Grandfathers Chair" (1841), "Biographical Stories for Children" (1842), "Twice-told Tales" (1842), "Mosses from an Old Manse" (1846); The 1840s building and consolidating a reputation - Hawthorne as a national author; reviews - "The Scarlet Letter" to "The Marble Faun", "The Scarlet Letter: A Romance " (1850), "True Stories from History and Biography" (1850, dated 1851), "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851), "Twice-told Tales" (1851), "A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys" (1852) and "The Snow Image and other Twice-told Tales" (1852), "The Blithedale Romance" (1852), "Life of Franklin Pierce" (1852), "Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys" (1853), "The Marble Faun: or The Romance of Monte Beni" (1860)/ "Transformation: or, The Romance of Monte Beni: (British edition); British and American assessments of Hawthorne - 1851-60. Volume 2 Hawthorne - "Creating a Classis" 1860-1900: the later works - "Our Old Home: a Series of English Sketches" (1863); four obituaries; posthumous publications - "Pansie" (1864) and "Passages from the American Notevooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1868), "Passages from the English Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1870), "Passages from the French and Italian Notebook of Nathaniel Hawthorne" (London 1871, Boston, 1872), "Septimus Felton" (1872), "Doctor Grimshawe's Secret" (1883); biographical; assessments - 1868-1900; reviews and reflections; canonization; Hawthorne in the 1890s. Volume 3 The critical response: assessment of individual works since 1900; the short stories - "Mosses from the Old Manse". "The Scarlet Letter" (1850), "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851), "The Blithedale Romance" (1852), "The Marble Faun: or The Romance of Monte Beni" (1860) "Transformation or, The Romance of Monte Beni" (British edition); passages from "The English Notebooks" (1870), "Doctor Grimshawe's Secret" (1833). Volume 4 The critical response: general assesments since 1900; Hawthorne's reputation; Hawthorne and romance; Hawthorne and feminism; Hawthorne and Henry James; Hawthorne and allegory and symbolism; Hawthorne - art and belief; general assesments.