Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Donald Darnell is professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has published a book on William Hickling Prescott and articles on Prescott, Cooper and Hawthorne in American Literature, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, American Transcendental Quarterly, South Atlantic Bulletin and Studies in American Fiction. He ıs currently completing a book on Cooper as a novelist of manners.
James P. Elliott, associate professor of English at Clark University, is Chief Textual Editor of the Cooper Edition. He has established the text of, and written the Historical Introduction to, Cooper’s The Prairie (Albany: SUNY Press, 1985), and is now preparing a volume of essays on the direction of textual editing.
Kay Seymour House is writing and editing at the family farm in Illinois. She is collaborating on a literary history of nineteenth-century American Literature for Italian students (forthcoming). A member of the Editorial Board of the Cooper Edition, and President of the recently-formed Cooper Society, she edited Cooper’s The Pilot (SUNY, 1986). She has written the Historical Introduction to Satanstoe, which she and Constance Denne edited from the manuscript (forthcoming). She will next prepare the Historical Introduction and explanatory notes for Cooper’s The Bravo.
Peter C. Lapp is a doctoral student in English at Queen’s University and a researcher at the Strathy Language Unit. He is working on the role of character in narrative and on the relation betwen American psychology and the American novel in the nineteenth century.
Richard Morton is professor of English at McMaster University. He has published “The Double Voice of Early American Literature” in this journal (1987), and his book Anne Sexton’s Poetry of Redemption was published by Mellen in 1988. He has an article on Elizabeth Elstob’s Rudiments of Grammar forthcoming in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and is at work on a monograph on Edward Taylor.
Thomas Philbrick is emeritus professor of English, University of Pittsburgh. Recent publications include the textual editing of Cooper’s Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine (Albany: SUNY, 1986); “The American Revolution As a Literary Event” in Columbia Literary History of the United States (New York, 1988), and “Before Ahab” in Americana, no. 3 (Paris, 1989). Major work in progress is a scholarly edition of Cooper’s The Red Rover.
Geoffrey Rans, professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, has completed a book on Cooper, Strange Order of Things: A Secular Reading of the Leatherstocking Novels, which will soon be published. He is working now on Catherine Sedgwick, Cooper’s Ways of the Hour, and studies on Poe and Whitman.
Ernest H. Redekop, associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, is senior editor of The Canadian Review of American Studies. He has written the Historical Introduction to Cooper’s Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine (SUNY, 1986), and has established the text for Cooper’s The Heidenmauer, for which he is also writing the Historical Introduction. His latest essay on Cooper is “Real versus Imagined History: Cooper’s European Novels,” in MOSAIC 22(1989).
Donald A. Ringe, professor of English at the University of Kentucky, is a member of the Editorial Board of the SUNY edition of The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper and with his late wife edited Lionel Lincoln. He has recently published an updated edition of his James Fenimore Cooper (1988) and is at work on a book on the transatlantic book trade.
Ian K. Steele is professor of history at the University of Western Ontario. His specialty is the British Atlantic empire in the century following 1675. Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the “Massacre” (New York: Oxford, 1990) reflects his current interest in the treatment of prisoners in eighteenth-century war. His earlıer books include Atlantic Merchant-Apothecary, Guerıllas and Grenadiers, and Politıcs of Colonial Policy.
