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For our special series of essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories about science, technology, and progress, and the original critical editions of the stories that we published to accompany the essays, artist Elliott Banfield has created a series of illustrations that bring to life the deeply serious and enchantingly absurd qualities of Hawthorne’s works.
Wasting the Water of Life: “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
Artful by Nature: “The New Adam and Eve”
From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires: “Ethan Brand,” “Earth’s Holocaust,” and “Fire Worship”
The Last Temptation of Science: “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
A Far Other Butterfly: “The Artist of the Beautiful”
Love Conquers All: The Blithedale Romance
