Historian's Scarlet Letter

Melissa McFarland Pennell, PhD, is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She regularly provides programs for library audiences and workshops for educators on Nathaniel Hawthorne and other authors.

The detailed index and lengthy bibliography make the text valuable for graduate students and scholars, while the essays and footnotes are accessible to high school and university students.

• Series Foreword by Ranjit S. DighePrefaceChronologyChapter 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Burden of the Past and the Promise of His Own EraChapter 2. Hawthorne, the Historical Romance, and Seventeenth-Century New EnglandThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Annotations by Melissa McFarland PennellBibliographyIndex