Resource Guide:
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem
• Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
• Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 - Characters
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 - Criticism and interpretation
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 - Political and social views
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 - Technique
• Gothic Revival (Literature)
• Romanticism, United States

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• MasterFILE Premier
• OAISter
• Oxford Reference

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
• American Literature
• Nineteenth-Century Literature
• Nineteenth-Century Fiction
• Romanticism
• Massachusetts Review

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.