An experimental fiction : "Alice Doane's appeal or, How (not) to tell a story"
Sketches experimental and ideal : "Ethan Brand" and "Main Street"
The scarlet letter and the language of history
The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's modern novel of 1848
The Blithedale romance : translation and transformation, mime and mimesis
The American claimant manuscripts, or, the absence of an ending
The marble faun, or, the ambivalencies and ambiguities
The elixir of life manuscripts : "Had we but world enough and time".