Critical Commentary Related to The Artist and Alienation and "Drowne's Wooden Image"

• Excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times by James R. Mellow

• Excerpt from Understanding The Scarlet Letter: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (courtesy of Greenwood Press)

• Excerpt from Hawthorne's View of the Artist by Millicent Bell (courtesy of SUNY Press)

• Excerpts from "Hawthorne's Drowne: Felix Culpa Exculpated" by Michael Wutz in Studies in American Fiction 18 (1990) (courtesy of Studies in American Fiction and Northeastern University)