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Hawthorne’s Histories, Hawthorne’s World picks up Hawthorne where The Province of Piety left him, extending the historical and theological reading there developed of the early Puritan and revolutionary tales Hawthorne wrote in birthplace Salem on to the contemporary tales, sketches, essays, and finally four published romances based on his stays in Brook Farm, Boston, Concord, Lenox, Salem, Liverpool, and Rome.
A collection of essays rather than a single, continuously argued monograph, Hawthorne’s Histories, Hawthorne’s World collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety, elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorne’s most memorable early tales “do history,” but proceeding then to explore the later productions of that author’s distinguished career. The result, in Colacurcio’s patient analysis, is something like Hawthorne’s history of his own times.
In this new volume, he discusses Hawthorne's career more comprehensively and adds a compelling reading of the two "Allegories of the Heart" in Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)—Choice
Introduction: Here and Elsewhere; 1. Summons of the Past: Hawthorne and the Theme(s) of Puritanism; 2. Moments’ Monuments: Hawthorne’s Scenic of History; 3. “Certain Circumstances”: Hawthorne and the Interest of History; 4. The Teller and the Tale: A Note on Hawthorne’s Narrators; 5. “Life within the Life”: Sin and Self in Hawthorne’s New England; 6. A Better Mode of Evidence: The Transcendental Problem of Faith and Spirit; 7. “Artificial Fire”: Reading Melville (Re-)reading Hawthorne; 8. “Red Man’s Grave”: Art and Destiny in Hawthorne’s “Main-street”; 9. “Such Ancestors”: The Spirit of History in The Scarlet Letter; 10. Inheritance, Repetition. Complicity, Redemption: Theo-politics in The House of the Seven Gables; 11. “Inextricable Knot of Polygamy”: Transcendental Husbandry in Hawthorne’s Blithedale; 12. Innocence Abroad: Here and There in Hawthorne’s “Last Phase”.