Hawthorne’s Histories, Hawthorne’s World
picks up Hawthorne where
The Province of Piety
left him, extending the  historical and theological reading there developed of the early Puritan and revolutionary tales Hawthorne wrote in birthplace Salem on to the contemporary tales, sketches, essays, and finally four published romances based on his stays in Brook Farm, Boston, Concord, Lenox, Salem, Liverpool, and Rome.
A collection of essays rather than a single, continuously argued monograph,
collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking
Province of Piety,
elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorne’s most memorable early tales “do history,” but proceeding then to explore the later productions of that author’s distinguished career. The result, in Colacurcio’s patient analysis, is something like Hawthorne’s history of his own times.