CRITICISM

EARLY CRITICISM

Longfellow reviews Twice-Told Tales, July, 1837
Edgar Allan Poe reviews Twice-Told Tales, April, 1842
Edgar Allan Poe reviews Twice-Told Tales, May, 1842
Edgar Allan Poe reviews Hawthorne's Tales, 1847
James Russell Lowell, from A Fable for Critics, 1848
"Hawthorne and His Mosses," by Herman Melville, 1850
Letters from Melville to Hawthorne
A review of The Scarlet Letter by Dr. George B. Loring, 1850
A review of The Scarlet Letter by Rev. A. C. Coxe, 1851
"Nathaniel Hawthorne," a chapter by George William Curtis, first published 1853, in G. P. Putnam's Homes of American Authors.
Yesterdays with Authors, by James T. Fields, 1871.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, a review by Henry James, the Nation, 1872
Hawthorne, by Henry James, London, 1879
- Selected criticism from the book, one large file
W. D. Howells reviews Hawthorne by Henry James, 1880
from Anthony Trollope, "The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne", 1879
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- a review by Julian Hawthorne from the April, 1886, issue of The Atlantic Monthly
Horatio Bridge: Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: Harper and Brothers 1893. (we gave up on the UConn copy and scanned our own)
Emerson and Hawthorne, 1887
Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Henry James, 1896
W. D. Howells visited Concord in 1860 to meet Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Emerson (he passed on Alcott), and published in 1900 a retrospective account in the first part of his Literary Friends and Acquaintance.
Introduction to The Scarlet Letter, by Katherine Lee Bates, Professor of English, Wellesley College, 1902
Henry James on Hawthorne, 1904
Henry James revisited Concord and Salem in the fall of 1904 and published a chapter in The American Scene on them in 1907.
"Imperishable Fiction: An Inquiry into the Short Life of the 'Best Sellers' Reveals the Methods which Brought into Being the Novels that Endure", Richard Le Gallienne, Munsey's Magazine, New York, 1914, Volume 51
Notice of publication of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Contemporary Reviews, Idol, John and Jones, Buford (eds.), 1994, 6 1/8 X 9 1/4, 557 pp., Hardback, 0-521-39142-3, $100.00
Cambridge History of English and American Literature Vol. 16, Part II, 1907-1921 (at the Bartleby Library online). One chapter devoted to Hawthorne, and other references scattered throughout, such as to his writings for children.

RECENT CRITICISM

Nineteenth Century Literature in 1996 placed online scores of their articles, reviews, and comments on Hawthorne.

Harvard's Sacvan Bercovitch on The Scarlet Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Fall 1996.

Klaus Benesch: Romantic Cyborgs: Technology, Authorship, and the Politics of Reproduction in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Node9 1 (January 1997).

From Ongoing Hypertext Projects at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia,
Studies in Classic American Literature, by D. H. Lawrence, 1923:

Major Molineaux site at University of Texas, with InterChange and three papers by students.

Young Goodman Brown site at University of Texas (1995), with InterChange and two papers by students.

"Early Nineteenth Century: American Renaissance and Romanticism," chapter 3 of online book, Perspectives in American Literature, by Paul Reuben, California State University, Stanislaus

"Early Nineteenth Century: Transcendentalism," chapter 4 of online book, Perspectives in American Literature, by Paul Reuben, California State University, Stanislaus

"The Priscilla in Each of Us:" An Analysis of Miles Coverdale's Love

"Rappaccini's Daughter" : From Mythological Monster to Martyr, 1994 by J. Dylan McNeill

"THE MAD SCIENTIST IN FICTION AND FACT," by Edward Amps, MA, (Departments of Forensic Philosophy, Media Studies [Horror Unit], Statistics, Computing, Genetics, Public Health, and any other department where a little contract research is available; University of Glemsford, UK) used to be at http://www.ftech.net/%7Emadsite/CandidatePapers/p026.html but has evidently been deleted.

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment - Medicine and Literature at NYU

Roman Fictions, collected with annotations by Jerise Fogel, lists The Marble Faun

Jonathan Kohl used to have an Essay on the Scarlet Letter at http://www.wp.com/KOHLPAGE/scarlet.htm

Reexamining Natheniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, by Bryan D. Bourn

"The Old Manse" Revisted: Some Analogues for Art, by John C. Willoughby, from The New England Quarterly, Vol. XLVI, No. 1, March 1973.

Anne Hutchinson: American Jezebel or Woman of Courage? by Rachel Buckingham, George Mason High School, Falls Church, Virginia

Hawthorne, the Hippie, and the Square, by Earl Hilton, 4/6/1997.

The Scared White Doe: Glimpses of Hawthorne's Influence on the Composition of Moby-Dick, by Andy Cline

A Nathaniel Hawthorne page has some honors English papers on Hawthorne and his writings, as well as some more photographs

Some online criticism of The House of the Seven Gables

List of W. W. Norton critical texts of some of Hawthorne's works, including contemporary and recent criticism

"The Irrevent Imagination: Hawthorne and the Scarlet Letter," by William Heath, professor of English at Mount Saint Mary's College, was in The Cortland Review, an On-Line Literary Magazine