Contributors
- Contributors
John Evelev is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri–Columbia. He has published Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in New York City (2006) and is currently writing a book-length study (from which the present essay is drawn) that explores the cultural work of literary genres of the picturesque in mid-nineteenth-century American literature.
Matthew Cordova Frankel is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Rhode Island, where he also directs the Edmund Rumowicz Program in Literature and the Sea. His book-in-progress is titled “Vital Currents in American Thought: An Ethology of the Life of Alfred North Whitehead, Perry Miller, and Quentin Compson.”
Andrew Knighton is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, where he teaches American literature and cultural and literary theory. He has written essays on Kenneth Fearing and Nathaniel Parker Willis, is currently researching a study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and is completing a book about the conceptualization of unproductivity in the literature and painting of nineteenth-century America. [End Page 216]
