Hawthorne's Histories, Hawthorne's World

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, Hawt