Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Contemporary Responses and Early Studies 2. Formalist and Postformalist Approaches 3. Historical Approaches 4. Psychoanalytical Approaches 5. Feminist Criticism 6. Reader-Response, Phenomenological and Poststructuralist Approaches Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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Introduces and sets in context the enormous range of critical arguments that have been generated by this enduring work. From the comments and reviews of Hawthorne's contemporaries through discussions of the novel by fellow artists such as Henry James and D.H. Lawrence, to radical re-readings of the postwar decades, the reader is given an invaluable guide to the critical progress of this key American text.

About the Author

Elmer Kennedy-Andrews teaches at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. He is the editor of Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays and Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays.