A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION Nathaniel Hawthorne THE SCARLET LETTER AND OTHER WRITINGS AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS CONTEXTS CRITICISM Edited by LELAND S. PERSON UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI W. W. NORTON & COMPANY New York • London Contents Preface A Note on the Texts xi xv The Texts of The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings THE SCARLET LETTER Preface to the Second Edition The Custom-House The Scarlet Letter 3 5 7 36 OTHER WRITINGS Mrs. Hutchinson Endicott and the Red Cross Young Goodman Brown The Minister's Black Veil The Birth-mark 167 172 178 189 199 Contexts Nathaniel Hawthorne • From American Notebooks • From Letters • From The Life of Franklin Pierce 215 219 232 Criticism NINETEENTH-CENTURY REVIEWS OF THE SCARLET LETTER Evert A. Duyckinck • From Literary World [Edwin Percy Whipple] • From Graham's Magazine [Anne W. Abbott] • From North American Review Orestes Brownson • From Brownson's Quarterly [Arthur Cleveland Coxe] • From Church Review Amory Dwight Mayo • From Universalist Quarterly [Jane Swisshelm] • From the Saturday Visiter 237 239 241 250 254 263 271 Robert S. Levine • Antebellum Feminists on Hawthorne: Reconsidering the Reception of The Scarlet Letter 274 PURITAN BACKGROUND AND SOURCES Charles Ryskamp • The New England Sources of The Scarlet Letter Michael J. Colacurcio • Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson: The Context of The Scarlet Letter 291 304 ii CONTENTS Frederick Newberry • A Red-Hot A and a Lusting Divine: Sources for The Scarlet Letter Kristin Boudreau • Hawthorne's Model of Christian Charity Ellen Weinauer • Considering Possession in The Scarlet Letter 331 338 368 THE CUSTOM-HOUSE John Franzosa • "The Custom-House," The Scarlet Letter, and Hawthorne's Separation from Salem Douglas Anderson • Jefferson, Hawthorne, and "The Custom-House" 387 404 THE SCARLET LETTER Michael Winship • Hawthorne and the "Scribbling Women": Publishing The Scarlet Letter in the Nineteenth-Century United States Laura Hanft Korobkin • The Scarlet Letter of the Law: Hawthorne and Criminal Justice Millicent Bell • The Obliquity of Signs: The Scarlet Letter David Leverenz • Mrs. Hawthorne's Headache: Reading The Scarlet Letter Stephen Rail ton • The Address of The Scarlet Letter Louise DeSalvo • Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Feminists: The Scarlet Letter Robert K. Martin • Hester Prynne, C'est Moi: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Anxieties of Gender T. Walter Herbert, Jr. • Nathaniel Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, and The Scarlet Letter: Interactive Selfhoods and the Cultural Construction of Gender Nina Baym • Revisiting Hawthorne's Feminism Bethany Reid • Narrative of the Captivity and Redemption of Roger Prynne: Rereading The Scarlet Letter Sacvan Bercovitch • The A-Politics of Ambiguity in The Scarlet Letter Michael T. Gilmore • Hawthorne and the Making of the Middle Class Larry J. Reynolds • The Scarlet Letter and Revolutions Abroad Jean Fagan Yellin • The Scarlet Letter and the Antislavery Feminists Leland S. Person • The Dark Labyrinth of Mind: Hawthorne, Hester, and the Ironies of Racial Mothering 418 426 451 463 481 500 512 522 541 558 576 597 614 632 656 OTHER WRITINGS Amy Schrager Lang • Anne Hutchinson John Nickel • Hawthorne's Demystification of History in "Endicott and the Red Cross" 670 680 CONTENTS David Levin • Shadows of Doubt: Specter Evidence in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" Frederick Crews • Escapism in "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's Black Veil" J. Hillis Miller • The Problem of History in "The Minister's Black Veil" Judith Fetterley • Women Beware Science: "The Birthmark" Cindy Weinstein • The Invisible Hand Made Visible: "The Birth-mark" Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Chronology Selected Bibliography ix 693 700 708 718 726 731 735