Beata Beatrix by D.G. Rossetti(courtesy of the Tate Gallery, London)
"The
Removal of the Preface of Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter' and the Indian
Question" by Masahiro Nakamura, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Aichi University
of Education, Kariya 448-8542, Japan [an expanded version of a paper delivered
at the 29th Conference of the Chu-Shikoku American Literature Society held on
June 17, 2000 at Hiroshima University of Economics]
The paper argues that Hawthorne may have removed the preface of "Rappaccini's
Daughter" in the 1846 and 1851 editions of Mosses from an Old Manse for
political reasons relating to the issue of Indian Removal. http://repository.aichi-edu.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10424/918/1/kenjin5393101.pdf