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

Preface ix Preface to Second Edition xiii 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 The May-Pole of Merry Mount no

The Minister's Black Veil 120

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 295

Preface to the 1851 Edition of Twice-told Tales 3'7 Preface to The Snow-Image 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 339 FROM THE AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS 34O Criticism EARLY CRITICISM 357 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Hawthorne's Twice-told Tales 359 Edgar Allan Poe • [Twice-told Tales, Second Edition] 362 Edgar Allan Poe • Tale-Writing—Nathaniel Hawthorne 363 Margaret Fuller • [Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse] 367 Herman Melville • Hawthorne and

His Mosses 370 Henry James • Early Writings 385 MODERN CRITICISM 393 Q. D. Leavis • Hawthorne as Poet 395 John P. McWilliams Jr. • Hawthorne and the

Puritan Revolution of 1776 409 Frederick C. Crews • The Logic of Compulsion 418 Michael J. Colacurcio • Visible Sanctity and Specter Evidence: The Moral World of Hawthorne's "Young

Goodman Rrown" 429 Jorge Luis Borges • Nathaniel Hawthorne 446

Sharon Cameron • The Self Outside Itself: "Wakefield" and "The Ambitious Guest" 458 J. Hillis Miller • Defacing It: Hawthorne and History 464 Robert B. Heilman • Hawthorne's "The Birthmark":

Science as Religion 477 Judith Fetterley • Women Beware Science: "The

Birthmark" 484 Nina Baym • [The Tales of the Manse Period] 494

Leo Marx • ["Ethan Brand"] 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