The following selective list includes articles dealing wholly or in part with The House of the Seven Gables and books on Hawthorne, or on American literature more generally, that contain discussions of the novel.
Abel, Darrel, ‘Hawthorne’s House of Tradition’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 52 (1953), 561–78.
Asselineau, Roger (ed.), Studies in the House of the Seven Gables (Columbus, Ohio, 1972).
Battaglia, Francis Joseph, ‘The House of the Seven Gables: New Light on Old Problems’, PMLA 82 (1967), 579–90.
Baym, Nina, The Shape of Hawthorne’s Career (Ithaca, NY, 1976).
Beebe, Maurice, ‘The Fall of the House of Pyncheon’, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 11 (1956), 1–17.
Bell, Michael Davitt, The Development of American Romance: The Sacrifice of Relation (Chicago, 1980).
—— Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England (Princeton, NJ, 1971).
Bell, Millicent, Hawthorne’s View of the Artist (New York, 1962).
Bewley, Marius, The Eccentric Design: Form in the Classic American Novel (New York, 1959).
Birdsall, Virginia Ogden, ‘Hawthorne’s Fair-Haired Maidens: The Fading Light’, PMLA 75 (1960), 250–6.
Brodhead, Richard H., Hawthorne, Melville, and the Novel (Chicago, 1976).
Byers, John R., Jr., ‘The House of the Seven Gables and “The Daughters of Dr. Byles”: A Probable Source’, PMLA 89 (1974), 174–7; see also exchange with Albert J. von Frank, ‘House of the Seven Gables: An Unlikely Source’, PMLA 89 (1974), 1114–15.
Charvat, William, ‘Introduction to The House of the Seven Gables’;, Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, ii (Columbus, Ohio, 1965), pp. xv–xxviii.
Crews, Frederick C., The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne’s Psychological Themes (New York, 1966).
Crowley, J. Donald, Nathaniel Hawthorne (New York, 1971).
Cunliffe, Marcus, ‘The House of the Seven Gables’, in Roy Harvey Pearce (ed.), Hawthorne Centenary Essays (Columbus, Ohio, 1964), pp. 79–101.
Dauber, Kenneth, Rediscovering Hawthorne (Princeton, NJ, 1977).
Dillingham, William B., ‘Structure and Theme in The House of the Seven Gables’, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 14 (1959), 59–70.
Dryden, Edgar A., Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Poetics of Enchantment (Ithaca, NY, 1977).
Fogle, Richard Harter, Hawthorne’s Fiction: The Light and the Dark (Norman, Okla., 1952; rev. edn., 1964, 1975).
—— Hawthorne’s Imagery: The ‘Proper Light and Shadow’ in the Major Romances (Norman, Okla., 1969).
Folsom, James K., Man’s Accidents and God’s Purposes: Multiplicity in Hawthorne’s Fiction (New Haven, Conn., 1964).
Fossum, Robert H., Hawthorne’s Inviolable Circle: The Problem of Time (Deland, Fla., 1972).
Gatta, John, Jun., ‘Progress and Providence in The House of the Seven Gables’, American Literature, 50 (1978), 37–48.
Gilmore, Michael T., American Romanticism and the Marketplace (Chicago, 1985).
Griffith, Clark, ‘Substance and Shadow: Language and Meaning in The House of the Seven Gables’, Modern Philology, 51 (1954), 187–95.
Griffiths, Thomas Morgan, Maine Sources in The House of the Seven Gables (Waterville, Me., 1954); expansion of ‘“Montpelier” and “Seven Gables”: Knox’s Estate and Hawthorne’s Novel’, New England Quarterly, 16 (1943), 432–43.
Gross, Seymour L. (ed.), The House of the Seven Gables (New York, 1967); this Norton Critical edition reprints a selection of backgrounds and sources, contemporary reviews, and more recent critical essays on the novel.
Hall, Lawrence Sargent, Hawthorne: Critic of Society (New Haven, Conn., 1944).
Hoffman, Daniel G., Form and Fable in American Fiction (New York, 1961).
Hutner, Gordon, Secrets and Sympathy: Forms of Disclosure in Hawthorne’s Novels (Athens, Ga., 1988).
James, Henry, Hawthorne (London, 1879; repr. Ithaca, NY, 1956).
Johnson, Claudia D., The Productive Tension of Hawthorne’s Art (University, Ala., 1981).
Kaul, A. N., The American Vision: Actual and Ideal Society in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (New Haven, Conn., 1963).
Kermode, Frank, The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change (New York, 1975).
Levin, Harry, The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville (New York, 1958).
Levy, Alfred J., ‘The House of the Seven Gables: The Religion of Love’, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 16 (1961), 189–203.
Limon, John, The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing (Cambridge, 1990).
McPherson, Hugo, Hawthorne as Myth-Maker: A Study in Imagination (Toronto, 1969).
McWilliams, John P., Jr., Hawthorne, Melville, and the American Character: A Looking-Glass Business (Cambridge, 1984).
Male, Roy R., Hawthorne’s Tragic Vision (Austin, Tex., 1957).
Marks, Alfred H., ‘Who Killed Judge Pyncheon? The Role of the Imagination in The House of the Seven Gables’, PMLA, 71 (1956), 355–69.
Martin, Terence, Nathaniel Hawthorne (New York, 1965; rev. edn., 1983).
Matthiessen, F. O., American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (New York, 1941).
Mellow, James R., Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times (Boston, 1980).
Michaels, Walter Benn, ‘Romance and Real Estate’, in Walter Benn Michaels and Donald E. Pease (eds.), The American Renaissance Reconsidered (Baltimore, 1985), pp. 156–82; repr. in Michaels, The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century (Berkeley, Calif., 1987).
Michelson, Bruce, ‘Hawthorne’s House of Three Stories’, New England Quarterly, 57 (1984), 163–83.
Mizruchi, Susan L., The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser (Princeton, NJ, 1988).
Porte, Joel, The Romance in America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James (Middletown, Conn., 1969).
Stewart, Randall, Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography (New Haven, Conn., 1948).
Stoehr, Taylor, Hawthorne’s Mad Scientists: Pseudoscience and Social Science in Nineteenth-Century Life and Letters (Hamden, Conn., 1978).
Stubbs, John Caldwell, The Pursuit of Form: A Study of Hawthorne and the Romance (Urbana, 111., 1970).
Sundquist, Eric J., Home as Found: Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Baltimore, 1979).
Thomas, Brook, Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville (Cambridge and New York, 1987).
Turner, Arlin, Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography (New York and Oxford, 1980).
Turner, Arlin, Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Introduction and Interpretation (New York, 1961).
Von Abele, Rudolph, The Death of the Artist: A Study in Hawthorne’s Disintegration (The Hague, 1955).
Waggoner, Hyatt H., Hawthorne: A Critical Study (Cambridge, Mass., 1955; rev. edn., 1963).
Winters, Yvor, ‘Maule’s Curse, or Hawthorne and the Problem of Allegory’, in Winters, Maule’s Curse: Seven Studies in the History of American Obscurantism (Norfolk, Conn., 1938), pp. 3–22; repr. in Winters, In Defense of Reason (Denver, 1947), pp. 157–75.
Yoder, R. A., ‘Transcendental Conservatism in The House of the Seven Gables’, Georgia Review, 28 (1974), 33–51.