Contains a collection of reviews and critical essays on The scarlet letter.

Includes criticism of "Roger Malvin's burial," "The artist of the beautiful," "The custom house," "The scarlet letter," "The house of the seven gables," "The Blithedale romance," and "The marble faun."

In addition to the text of the first edition of the novel, the New Riverside Edition of The Scarlet Letter contains a wide variety of contextual materials and scholarly essays. "Contexts" includes additional writings and letters by Hawthorne, as well as essays on the New England sources of the novel and the novel's publication history. "Criticism" contains early reviews of the novel and critical readings from the 19th century (such as an excerpt from Henry James' book Hawthorne) to the present.

A collection of critical and expository essays on The scarlet letter.

The book is a collection of critical essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850). The interpretations deal with its main characters, «The Custom-House», the Spanish sailors, the Book of Revelations, and the artist as adulterer. The authors apply different critical tools such as allegory or hermeneutical exposition.

A critical overview of the work features such contributors as Henry James, Harry Levin, Mark Van Doren, and Terence Martin.