Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales (Norton Critical Editions)

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel; McIntosh, James

• ISBN13: 9780393935646
• ISBN10: 0393935647
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-06
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This revised Norton Critical Edition brings together twenty-three of Hawthorne's tales in all their psychological and moral complexity. The Second Edition adds the early biographical sketch Mrs. Hutchinson as well as two tales, The Wives of the Dead and Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. Each tale is accompanied by explanatory annotations. The Author on His Work contains the prefaces Hawthorne wrote for the three collections of tales published during his lifetime-The Old Manse, Twice-Told Tales, and The Snow Image. Also included are pertinent selections from his American Notebooks and relevant letters to, among others, Sophia Peabody, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Margaret Fuller. Criticism offers important contemporary assessments of Hawthorne's tales by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller (new to the Second Edition), James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, and Henry James. Modern criticism is well represented by twelve essays-four of them new to the Second Edition-on the tales' central issues. Contributors include Jorge Louis Borges, J. Hillis Miller, Judith Fetterley, Nina Baym, Leo Marx, and Martin Bidney, among others. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Preface to Second Edition	p. xiii
The Texts of the Tales
My Kinsman, Major Molineux	p. 3
Roger Malvin's Burial	p. 19
The Gentle Boy	p. 36
The Wives of the Dead	p. 62
Mrs. Hutchinson	p. 67
The Haunted Mind	p. 73
The Gray Champion	p. 77
Young Goodman Brown	p. 84
Wakefield	p. 96
The Ambitious Guest	p. 103
The May-Pole of Merry Mount	p. 110
The Minister's Black Veil	p. 120
The Man of Adamant	p. 131
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment	p. 137
Endicott and the Red Cross	p. 146
The Birthmark	p. 152
The Celestial Rail-road	p. 166
Earth's Holocaust	p. 181
The Artist of the Beautiful	p. 198
Drowne's Wooden Image	p. 218
Rappaccini's Daughter	p. 228
Ethan Brand	p. 254
Feathertop	p. 267
A Note on the Text
Textual Variants	p. 286
Hawthorne's Revisions of "The Gentle Boy"	p. 288
The Author on His Work
Prefaces	p. 293
The Old Manse	p. 295
Preface to the 1851 Edition of Twice-told Tales	p. 317
Preface to the Snow-Image	p. 321
Letters	p. 323
To Elizabeth C. Hathorne, March 13, 1821	p. 324
To H. W. Longfellow, June 4, 1837	p. 325
To H. W. Longfellow, June 19, 1837	p. 328
To H. W. Longfellow, January 12, 1839	p. 328
To Sophia Peabody, October 4, 1840	p. 330
To G. S. Hillard, July 16, 1841	p. 332
To Margaret Fuller, August 25, 1842	p. 332
To Margaret Fuller, February 1, 1843	p. 334
To E. A. Duyckinck, July 1, 1845	p. 336
To E. A. Duyckinck, April 15, 1846	p. 336
To R. W. Griswold, December 15, 1851	p. 338
To James T. Fields, April 13, 1854	p. 339
From the American Notebooks	p. 340
Criticism
Early Criticism	p. 357
Hawthorne's Twice-told Tales	p. 359
[Twice-told Tales, Second Edition]	p. 362
Tale-Writing-Nathaniel Hawthorne	p. 363
[Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse]	p. 367
Hawthorne and His Mosses	p. 370
Early Writings	p. 385
Modern Criticism	p. 393
Hawthorne as Poet	p. 395
Hawthorne and the Puritan Revolution of 1776	p. 409
The Logic of Compulsion	p. 418
Visible Sanctity and Specter Evidence: The Moral World of Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"	p. 429
Nathaniel Hawthorne	p. 446
The Self Outside Itself: "Wakefield" and "The Ambitious Guest"	p. 458
Defacing It: Hawthorne and History	p. 464
Hawthorne's "The Birthmark": Science as Religion	p. 477
Women Beware Science: "The Birthmark"	p. 484
[The Tales of the Manse Period]	p. 494
["Ethan Brand"]	p. 499
Fire, Flutter, Fall, and Scatter: A Structure in the Epiphanies of Hawthorne's Tales	p. 507
Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Chronology	p. 525
Selected Bibliography	p. 529
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