About this volume ; On The scarlet letter ; Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne / Brian Yothers -- The scarlet letter casts its shadow / Samuel Coale -- Hawthorne's The scarlet Letter : one passage from multiple perspectives / Robert C. Evans -- "Of connection across space and time" : The scarlet letter and Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth / Anupama Arora -- Puritans and Transcendentalists : The scarlet letter in New England culture / Brian Yothers -- "Absolutely American" : Hawthorne's postcolonial and neocolonial masterplot / Jane Zwart -- Autobiography and romance in Hawthorne's "The custom-house" : literary creation and the second story / John Wenke -- Hawthorne's removal from the Salem Custom House and the thematics of public exposure in The scarlet letter / Jonathan A. Cook -- Dark romanticism, American asceticism : the transatlantic contexts of The scarlet letter / Brad Bannon -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and the form of American romance / Casey R. Pratt -- Discovering Hester Prynne : The scarlet letter and the American renaissance / Christopher N. Phillips -- Popular fiction and The scarlet letter / Nancy F. Sweet -- The scarlet letter as utopian/dystopian fiction / Steven Petersheim -- The scarlet letter and film adaptation : feminism and fidelity / David Greven.