A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S
TALES
AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS
BACKGROUNDS
CRITICISM
Second Edition
Selected and Edited by
JAMES McINTOSH
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
W • W • NORTON & COMPANY:* New York • London
Contents
ix
Preface
xiii
Preface to Second Edition
The Texts of the Tales
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
3
Roger Malvin's Burial
19
The Gentle Boy
36
The Wives of the Dead
62
Mrs. Hutchinson
67
The Haunted Mind
73
The Gray Champion
77
Young Goodman Brown
84
Wakefield
96
The Ambitious Guest
I03
no
The May-Pole of Merry Mount
120
The Minister's Black Veil
The Man of Adamant
131
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
'37
Endicott and the Red Cross
146
The Birthmark
152
The Celestial Rail-road
166
Earth's Holocaust
181
The Artist of the Beautiful
198
Drowne's Wooden Image
218
Rappaccini's Daughter
228
Ethan Brand
254
Feathertop
267
A Note on the Text
Textual Variants
286
Hawthorne's Revisions of "The Gentle Boy"
288
The Author on His Work
PREFACES
293
The Old Manse
Preface to the 1851 Edition of
Preface to
The Snow-Image
295
Twice-told Tales
3'7
321
CONTENTS
LETTERS
323
To Elizabeth C. Hathorne, March 13, 1821
324
To H. W. Longfellow, June 4, 1837
325
To H. W. Longfellow, June 19, 1837
328
To H. W. Longfellow, January 12, 1839
328
To Sophia Peabody, October 4, 1840
330
To G. S. Hillard, July 16, 1841
332
To Margaret Fuller, August 25, 1842
332
To Margaret Fuller, February 1, 1843
334
To E. A. Duyckinck, July 1, 1845
336
To E. A. Duyckinck, April 15, 1846
336
To R. W. Griswold, December 15, 1851
338
To James T. Fields, April 13, 1854
FROM
339
THE AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS
34O
Criticism
EARLY CRITICISM
357
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Hawthorne's
Twice-told Tales
Edgar Allan Poe • [Twice-told
359
Tales, Second
Edition]
Edgar Allan Poe • Tale-Writing—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Margaret Fuller • [Hawthorne's
362
363
Mosses from
an Old Manse]
367
Herman Melville • Hawthorne and
His Mosses
Henry James • Early Writings
MODERN CRITICISM
Q. D. Leavis • Hawthorne as Poet
370
385
393
395
John P. McWilliams Jr. • Hawthorne and the
Puritan Revolution of 1776
Frederick C. Crews • The Logic of Compulsion
409
418
Michael J. Colacurcio • Visible Sanctity and Specter
Evidence: The Moral World of Hawthorne's "Young
Goodman Rrown"
Jorge Luis Borges • Nathaniel Hawthorne
429
446
Sharon Cameron • The Self Outside Itself: "Wakefield"
and "The Ambitious Guest"
J. Hillis Miller • Defacing It: Hawthorne and History
458
464
Robert B. Heilman • Hawthorne's "The Birthmark":
Science as Religion
477
Judith Fetterley • Women Beware Science: "The
Birthmark"
Nina Baym
• [The Tales of the Manse Period]
Leo Marx • ["Ethan Brand"]
484
494
499
CONTENTS
vii
Martin Bidney • Fire, Flutter, Fall, and Scatter: A Structure
in the Epiphanies of Hawthorne's Tales
507
Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Chronology
525
Selected Bibliography
529