Sketches and tales. The haunted mind ; Fancy's show box ; The maypole of Merry Mount ; The minister's black veil
Tales and interpretations. Hawthorne's 'My kinsman, Major Molineux': history as moral adventure / Seymour Gross ; Yankee bumpkin and scapegoat king / Daniel G. Hoffman ; Lovewell's fight and Hawthorne's 'Roger Malvin's burial' / David S. Lovejoy ; The tales: the discovery of meaning / Hyatt H. Waggoner
The moment and the endless voyage: a study of Hawthorne's 'Wakefield' / Andrew Schiller ; 'Wakefield': the story is the meaning / Hyatt H. Waggoner ; Hawthorne's revision of 'The gentle boy' / Seymour Gross ; The fruit of that forbidden tree: a reading of 'The gentle boy' / Agnes McNeill Donohue ; Interpretation of 'The birthmark' / Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren ; Hawthorne's 'The birthmark': science as religion / R. B. Heilman ; Ambiguity and charity in Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' / Richard H. Fogle ; Just married! - In the village of witches / Daniel G. Hoffman
Classical Hawthorne criticism. Nathaniel Hawthorne / Edgar Allan Poe ; Hawthorne and his Mosses / Herman Melville ; Hawthorne / Henry James ; Nathaniel Hawthorne and 'The scarlet letter' / D. H. Lawrence ; Maule's curse: or Hawthorne and the problem of allegory / Yvor Winters ; Hawthorne's psychology: the acceptance of good and evil / F. O. Matthiessen ; Hawthorne as poet / Q. D. Leavis
Appendices. Nathaniel Hawthorne: a biographical sketch ; From The American notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Questions and problems ; Topics for student papers.
