Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Fitzhugh Brundage is assistant professor of history at Queen's University. His Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (Urbana, University of Illinois press) will be published in 1993. He is at work on a book on communitarian socialists in Georgia and Tennessee, 1890-1900. Mary Chapman is assistant professor of English at the University of Alberta. Her essay "'A Moment's Ornament': Women and Tableaux Vivants in Nineteenth-Century America" will appear in an upcoming issue of Differences. Christopher Coates recently completed his doctorate in English at the Universityof Florida. His essay "Eliot's Baudelaire: 'Christ the Tiger' in the 'Fourmillante cite'"appeared in the Yeats Eliot Review; a review of Graham Clarke's The New American Writingwas published in Western American Literature. He is working on a study of Walter Pater, exhumation and historicism. Walter H. Conser Jr. is associate professor of philosophy and religion at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His research interests include American religioushistory and native American religious traditions. Jeffery Donaldson is assistant professor of English at McMaster University. Recent publications include an essay "Must Men Stand by What they Write?" in Partisan Review (1991). He is working on a series of essays on Auden's "BucolicEpos: Epic Poetry in an Age of the Clear-Voiced Muse." James Dougherty is professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and editor of Religion and Literature. His book, Walt Whitman and the Citizen'sEye, from which the present essay is drawn, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 1993. He is also president of RENEW, a non-profit corporation providing owned homes for low-income families in South Bend, Indiana, where he lives. Joseph Griffin is associate professor of English at the University of Ottawa. With James Barry, he has edited an anthology, The Storyteller Around the World (Toronto, 1992). His research interests are Ernest J. Gaines, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser. Philip Lawson is associate professor of history at the University of Alberta. Recent publications include Imperial Challenge: Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution (Montreal, 1989), and "A Perspective on British History and the Treatment of the Conquest of Quebec," Journal of Historical Sociology 3 (1990). He is writing a history of the East India Company, to be published by Longmans. David L. Lightner is associate professor of history at the University of Alberta. His most recent publication is "The Interstate Slave Trade in Antislavery Politics," Civil WarHistory 36 (1990). 578 Author's Name R.D.MacDonaldis professor of English at Brock University. He has recently published essays on Ethel Wilson in Studies in Canadian Literature, on Stephen Leacock, Sinclair Lewis and Sarah Jeannette Duncan in Dalhousie Review, and on Leo Marx and Haliburton in The Canadian Review of American Studies. His research interests include Frost's and Melville's relations to WilliamJames. PatrickMaynard is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He has published many essays on art in a variety of journals, and is writing a book about drawingentitled Drawing Distinctions, with the aid of a grant from SSHRCC; his essay here is part of this project. George A. Rawlyk is professor of history at Queen's University. Recent books include Champions of the Truth (1990) and Wrapped Up in God (1988). He is working on a study of popular Evangelicalismin British North America from the American Revolution to the War of 1812. ErnestH. Redekopis senior editor of TheCanadian Review ofAmerican Studies and one of the editors of the Cooper Edition (Clark University; SUNY Press). He teaches American literature at the Universityof Western Ontario. Craig Simpson is associate professor of history at the University of Western Ontario. He is author ofA Good Southerner: TheLife of HenryA. Wise of Virginia (1985) and co-editor, with WilliamW. Freehling, of SecessionDebated: Georgia'sShowdown in 1860 (1992). He is working on a history of the Secessioncrisis. Robert Skelton is professor of music at the University of Western Ontario, a well-known violinist,and the winner of manyprizes for photography. Jacqueline R. Smetak received her doctorate in American literature from the University of Iowa, and is currently on the...