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Chronology of Hawthorne's life; Introduction Richard H. Millington; 1.Hawthorne's labors in Concord Larry J. Reynolds; 2. Hawthorne as culturaltheorist Joel Pfister; 3. Hawthorne and American masculinity T. WalterHerbert; 4. Hawthorne and the question of women Alison Easton; 5. Hawthorne,modernity, and the literary sketch Kristie Hamilton; 6. Hawthorne's Americanhistory Gillian Brown; 7. Hawthorne and the writing of childhood KarenSanchez-Eppler; 8. Love and politics, sympathy and justice in The ScarletLetter Brook Thomas; 9. The marvelous queer interiors of The House of theSeven Gables Christopher Castiglia; 10. Sympathy and reform in The BlithedaleRomance Robert S. Levine; 11. Perplexity, sympathy, and the question of thehuman: a reading of The Marble Faun Emily Miller Budick; 12. Whose Hawthorne?Gordon Hutner.