
| Robert S. Levine is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brocken Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville and Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. His edited volumes include The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville and Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader.
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| Introduction A Note on the Text and Annotations Acknowledgments The Text of The House of the Seven Gables Contexts HISTORY Thomas Maule·From Truth Held Forth and Maintained Robert Calef·From More Wonders of the Invisible World Joseph B. Felt·From Annals of Salem Charles W. Upham·From Lectures on Witchcraft Nathaniel Hawthorne·From The American Notebooks HAWTHORNE AND THE LITERARY SKETCH Nathaniel Hawthorne·Alice Doane’s Appeal Nathaniel Hawthorne·The Old Apple-Dealer HOUSES William Andrus Alcott·From The House I Live In Edgar Allan Poe·The Fall of the House of Usher Andrew Jackson Downing·[American Country Houses] Catharine E. Beecher·[American Housekeepers] Margaret Fuller·From The Great Lawsuit J.H. Agnew·From Woman’s Offices and Influence DAGUERROTYPY AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES Nathaniel Parker Willis·From The Pencil of Nature: A New Discovery Anonymous·From Daguerreotypes Ralph Waldo Emerson·[Sea and Shore] T. S. Arthur·The Daguerreotypist Frederick Douglass·[Our Photographic Process] Charles Poyen·[Animal Magnetism] Nathaniel Hawthorne·[Love is the True Magnetism] Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville·From On the Penitentiary System in the United States Nathaniel Hawthorne·[Railroads] Criticism CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES Nathaniel Hawthorne·From Letter to Hortatio Bridge, March 15, 1851 Herman Melville·Letter to Hawthorne, [April 16], 1851 Catharine Maria Sedgwick·Letter to Mrs. K.S. Minot, May 4, 1851 Anonymous·[Sombre Coloring] Harriet Beecher Stowe·[A Succession of Rembrandt Pictures] SELECTIONS FROM CLASSIC STUDIES Anthony Trollope·[A Ghastly Spirit of Drollery] Henry James·[The House of the Seven Gables] William Dean Howells·[Dim, Forlorn Wraiths] D. H. Lawrence·[Vacuum Cleaner] F. O. Mathiessen·[Energy of Disease] Hyatt H. Waggoner·[Curves, Circles, and Cycles] A. N. Kaul·[The Rising Democracy] Frederick C. Crews·[Imperfect Repression] Nina Baym·[Holgrave] Eric J. Sundquist·[Mirror with a Memory] RECENT CRITICISM, 1981–PRESENT Michael T. Gilmore·The Artist and the Marketplace in The House of the Seven Gables Walter Benn Michaels·Romance and Real Estate Gillian Brown·From Women’s Work and Bodies in The House of the Seven Gables Richard H. Millington·[The Triple Beginning of The House of the Seven Gables] Alan Trachtenberg·Seeing and Believing: Hawthorne’s Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven Gables David Anthony·Class, Culture, and the Trouble with White Skin in Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables Amy Schrager Lang·From Home, in the Better Sense: The Model Woman, the Middle Class, and the Harmony of Interests Christopher Castiglia·The Marvelous Queer Interiors of The House of The Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Chronology Selected Bibliography |
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