Acknowledgements
Notes on the texts
1. Tradition and revolution
2. An experimental fiction
3. Sketches experimental and ideal
4. The Scarlet Letter and the language of history
5. The House of the Seven Gables
6. The Blithedale Romance
7. The American Claimant Manuscripts, or, the absence of an ending
8. The Marble Faun, or, the ambivalences and ambiguities
9. The Elixir of Life Manuscripts
Notes
Index.

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