Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Critical Study

Novelist and short story writer, a central figure in the American Renaissance, Hawthorne took a dark view of human nature. This book contains seven articles viz. – Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Overview; Hawthorne and the Universal Reformers; Letters Turned to Gold: Hawthorne, Authorship and Slavery; The Adulteress in the Market-place: Hawthorne and the Scarlet Letter; Domesticating Hawthorne: Home is for the Birds; The Marble Mother: Hawthorne’s Iconographies of the Feminine; Hawthorne’ “Waking Reality”; etc. This book will equally benefit the teachers and students.