The legacy of The Scarlet Letter: Hawthorne in contemporary culture
Hawthorne as nineteenth-century morbid genius
Biographical and critical veils in the nineteenth century
Biographical visions of the twentieth century
Entangled polarities: the new criticism
Doubting dualisms: the strategies of Hawthorne's romance
Ideological contexts: deconstructionism, feminism, the new historicism, race, and entanglement.
