Contributors

Contributors GRETCHEN MURPHY. . . Assistant Professor of English at University of Minnesota, Morris, is the author οι Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine andNarratives of U. S. Empire, and she is presently at work on a book about the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century racial politics of empire. ROBERTSATTELMEYER. . . Regents Professor of English at Georgia State University, has published numerous studies of Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Mark Twain. He is coeditor of the forthcoming threevolume encyclopedia American History through Literature, 1820—18JO (Scribners). GALE TEMPLE. . . is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he specializes in early American literature and culture. He has published an article on Fanny Fern and has another forthcoming on Melville's Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man. His current projects include essays on Charles Brockden Brown and James Fenimore Cooper, as well as a book manuscript that focuses on connections among literature, economic change, and social reform in antebellum America. ...