Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175) and index.

The sources of ambiguity in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown : a structuralist approach / Harold F. Mosher, Jr -- My faith is gone : Young Goodman Brown and Puritan conversion / Jane Donahue Eberwein -- Doubts in the American garden : three cases of paradisal skepticism / John S. Hardt -- Young Goodman Brown and A white heron : correspondences and illuminations / Jules Zanger -- Lachrymal imagery in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown / Joan Elizabeth Easterly -- Cultural fate and social freedom in three American short stories / Walter Shear -- Goodman Brown and the Puritan catechism / Benjamin Franklin V -- Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown : early nineteenth-century and Puritan constructions of gender / James C. Keil -- Romanticism's fallen edens : the malignant contribution of Hawthorne's literary landscapes / Debra Johanyak -- Pray tarry with me Young Goodman Brown / Edward Jayne -- The American psychosis / David Bromwich.