The text of The scarlet letter -- Great feeling and discrimination / Evert A. Duyckink -- Tragic power / Edwin Percy Whipple -- Severity, purity and sympathy / Henry F. Chorley -- Hester versus Dimmesdale / George Bailey Loring -- The nauseous amour of a Puritan pastor / Arthur Cleveland Coxe -- The New England sources of The scarlet letter / Charles Ryskamp -- Hester Prynne in history / Charles Boewe & Murray G. Murphy -- Public confession and The scarlet letter / Ernest W. Baughman -- Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson: the context of The scarlet letter / Michael J. Colacurcio -- Tradition and disinheritance in The scarlet letter / Frederick Newberry -- Narrative tone in "The custom-house" and The scarlet letter / Marshall Van Deusen -- The surveyor of "The custom-house": a narrator for The scarlet letter / David Stouck -- The romantic malgre lui: Hawthorne in "The custom-house" / Nina Baym -- A key to "The custom-house" / Robert L. Berner.

The scarlet letter / F.O. Matthiessen -- Form and content in The scarlet letter / John C. Gerber -- Scarlet A minus / Frederic I. Carpenter -- Hawthorne's Hester / David Abel -- Realms of being and dramatic irony / Richard Harter Fogle -- Three orders: natural, moral, and symbolic / Hyatt Howe Waggoner -- Transformations: Hester and Arthur / Roy R. Male -- "Solitude, and love, and anguish": the tragic design of The scarlet letter / Seymour Gross -- Hester's double Providence: the scarlet letter and the green / Daniel G. Hoffman -- The scarlet letter as a love story / Ernest Sandeen -- The ruined wall / Frederick C. Crews -- The people of Boston / Charles Feidelson, Jr. -- The dark blossom of romance / Joel Porte -- The scarlet letter: "a tale of human frailty and sorrow" / John Caldwell Stubbs -- Method in The scarlet letter / Richard H. Brodhead -- Plot in The scarlet letter / Nina Baym -- Hawthorne versus Hester: the ghostly dialectic of romance in The scarlet letter / Daniel Cottom -- The ambivalent narrator of The scarlet letter / David Leverenz -- The embroidered sin: confessional evasion in The scarlet letter / Dennis Foster.