Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter

Introduction / Harold Bloom --

Sowing dragons' teeth : personal life and revolution in The scarlet letter / Joel Pfister --

The a-politics of ambiguity / Sacvan Bercovitch --

The scarlet letter and the language of history : past imperfect, present imperfect, future perfect? / Charles Swann --

Hester's skepticism, Hawthorne's faith; or, what does a woman doubt? instituting the American romance tradition / Emily Miller Budick --

"Apples of the thoughts and fancies" : nature as narrator in The scarlet letter / Janice B. Daniel --

Hawthorne and the making of the middle class / Michael T. Gilmore --

The dark labyrinth of mind : Hawthorne, Hester, and the ironies of racial mothering / Leland S. Person --

The matter of form / Richard Kopley --

From artifact to archetype / Margaret Reid.