Novelist and short story writer, a central figure in the American Renaissance, Hawthrone took a dark of human nature. This book contains seven articles viz. - Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Overview; Hawthrone and the Universal Reformers; Letters Turned to Gold: Hawthrone, Authorship and Slavery; The Adulteress in the Market-place: Hawthrone and the Scarlet Letter; Domesticating Hawthrone: Home is for the Birds; The Marble Mother: Hawthrone's Iconographies of the Feminine; Hawthrone' "Waking Reality". etc.