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THE CONTRIBUTORS Jennifer DiLALLA toner is a Ph.D. candidate in English at The Johns Hopkins University. She is finishing a dissertation entitled, "Imaginary Portraits: The Fictional Life-Narrative in America from Brown to Melville. " nancy schnog is an assistant professor of American Literature and Civilization at Middlebury College. She is currently revising a book manuscript entitled, Inside the Sentimental: The Psychological Work of American Women's Writing and conducting research on the social construction of emotional life in nineteenth-century America. Anthony Scott is a doctoral candidate in English at Johns Hopkins. He is writing a dissertation on aesthetic discourse in the novels of Hawthorne and James. christopher gair has degrees from the Universities ofLoughborough and Nottingham. At present, he lectures part time in American Literature at Birmingham University and at Trent University, Nottingham , and is writing a critical study ofJack London's novels. He has published articles on American Literary Naturalism, and on popular music and culture. Michael Kaufmann teaches literature and film at Indiana University —Purdue University Fort Wayne. He has written on the innovative use ofprint in modernist fiction in his bookTextual Bodies (Bucknell University Press, Dec. 1993), and has published articles on Joyce, Stein, Eliot, and Gass. philip Gould teaches in the English Department at DePaul University. Gregory jay is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Among his publications are America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject ofLiterary History and recent articles on multiculturalism, Walt Whitman, and the politics of literary study. He will be a featured speaker at the 1993 NCTE Summer Institute on theory and American literature. ...

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