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  • Notes on Contributors

Andrew Bennett is Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol. His most recent publication is Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is currently working on a book-length study of Wordsworth and composition.

James Buzard is Associate Professor of Literature at MIT and the author of The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to ‘Culture,’ 1800–1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), as well as numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and culture. He has recently coedited a special issue of Victorian Studies on “Victorian Ethnographies” and is working on a book for Princeton University Press called Anywhere’s Nowhere: Fictions of Autoethnography in the United Kingdom.

Jonathan Crewe is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Dartmouth College. He has published widely on English Renaissance literature, and is one of the editors of the new Pelican Shakespeare, now in production.

Evelyne Ender is a visiting associate professor at Yale University and maître-assistante at the Université de Genève. Her book Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria was published by Cornell University Press in 1995. She is currently working on a book on literature and private memory, entitled Architexts of Memory.

Glenn Hendler is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is coeditor of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999), and has completed a book titled Public Sentiments: Fictions of the Public Sphere in Nineteenth-Century America. He is also the author of essays on Twain, Alger, and Alcott in Arizona Quarterly, American Quarterly, and American Literary History.

Jane Kuenz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. She is coauthor of Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World and is currently completing a study of the Harlem Renaissance.

Michelle Massé is an Associate Professor of English and the Founding Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She is the author of In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), essays on psychoanalysis, feminism, and fiction, and is currently working on a project on Louisa May Alcott. She is the editor of the State University of New York Press’s Feminist Theory and Criticism series.

Sean McCann is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of “This Grotesque Position”: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the New Deal (forthcoming from Duke University Press) and is at work on a history of anti-liberalism in twentieth-century American literature.

Marianne Noble is an assistant professor of literature at American University in Washington, DC. Her book The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (Princeton University Press) will be out in Spring 2000. She is currently working on a new book entitled Sympathy and the Sublime: The Language of Totality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

Edward L. Schwarzschild is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. He was previously director of film studies and assistant professor of English at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

Gustavus Stadler is Assistant Professor of English at Haverford College. He is working on a book titled Genius and Sentiment: Gender, Cultural Value, and the Erotics of Reading in Louisa May Alcott and Henry James.

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