Nathaniel Hawthorne
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's major short story writers
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Broomall, PA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781438116266
Subjects: Study guides; Criticism and interpretation; Examinations; Handbooks, manuals; Short story
Description: Presents plot summaries, characters, and critical views on the author's best known short stories, including "Young Goodman Brown" and "The minister's black veil," and includes biographical information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York: Infobase Pub., 2012. Available via World Wide Web.

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Table of contents: title: Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Plot summary of "Young Goodman Brown"; title: List of characters in "Young Goodman Brown"; title: Critical views on "Young Goodman Brown." Henry James on imagination and allegory ; Darrel Abel on the pink ribbon as symbol ; Joan Elizabeth Easterly on Goodman Brown's spiritual failure ; Walter Shear on time and social fantasy ; Benjamin Franklin V on the Puritan catechism; title: Plot summary of "The minister's black veil"; title: List of characters in "The minister's black veil"; title: Critical views on "The minister's black veil." James R. Mellow on Hawthorne's veil ; Richard H. Brodhead on Hawthorne and Melville ; William Freedman on the veil as symbol ; Edgar A. Dryden on the story as parable ; Samuel Chase Coale on Hooper and the veil; title: Plot summary of "The Maypole of Merry Mount"; title: List of characters in "The Maypole of Merry Mount"; title: Critical views on "The Maypole of Merry Mount." Harry Levin on the setting of the story ; Terrence Martin on conflict in the story ; John F. Birk on Milton's influence on the story ; David D. Joplin on Hawthorne and Milton ; Michael J. Colacurcio on the story as allegory; title: Plot summary of "Rappaccini's daughter"; title: List of characters in "Rappaccini's daughter"; title: Critical views on "Rappaccini's daughter." Jac Tharpe on Beatrice ; John N. Miller on false leads in the story ; Ronald J. Nelson on sources for Pietro Baglioni ; Carol M. Bensick on modern interpretations ; Patricia M. Roger on the physical and the spiritual ; Anna Brickhouse on the Mexican genealogy of the story; title: Plot summary of "Roger Malvin's burial"; title: List of characters in "Roger Malvin's burial"; title: Critical views on "Roger Malvin's burial." Patricia Anne Carlson on setting and interpretation ; Shifra Hochberg on the significance of names in the story ; G.R. Thompson on strategies of narrative intervention ; Michael J. Colacurcio on Reuben Bourne's logic ; Nancy Bunge on the theme of the story.