This all-new edition of Hawthorne’s celebrated 1851 novel is based on The Ohio State University Press’s Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations and an insightful introduction to the novel and antebellum culture by Robert S. Levine.

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