納撒尼爾‧霍桑

　　《納撒尼爾‧霍桑》是劍橋文學名家研習系列之一，作為《紅字》的作者，納撒尼爾‧霍桑被看作是19世紀一名主要作家。這部為學生撰寫的研習本以深入淺出、生動活潑的文字評述了霍桑的一生及其創作情況，對他重要的短篇小說和其他作品進行細緻的分析，同時簡要回顧和評介其學術成就。研讀19世紀美國文學的學生會發現這部研習之書不獨引人入勝，而且大有裨益。

A note on the texts
Preface
Chapter 1 Hawthornes life
Chapter 2 Hawthornes contexts
Puritanism
Transcendentalism
Feminism and scribbling women
Race， slavery， and abolition
Nineteenth-century manhood

Chapter 3 Hawthornes short fiction
"Alice Doanes Appeal"
"Roger Malvins Burial"
"The Gentle Boy"
"Young Goodman Brown"
"The May-Pole of Merry Mount"
"Endicott and the Red Cross"
"The Ministers Black Veil"
"Wakefield"
"My Kinsman， Major Molineux"
"Monsieur du Miroir"
"The New Adam and Eve"
"The Birth-mark"
"The Artist of the Beautiful"
"Rappaccinis Daughter"
"Drownes Wooden Image"

Chapter 4 Hawthornes novels
The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
The Blithedale Romance
The Marble Faun

Chapter 5 Hawthornes critics
Biography
Criticism
Notes
Guide to further reading
Index