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293 Kristen Case is assistant professor of English at the University of Maine at Farmington. She has published articles on Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, and Ezra Pound and is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Camden House, 2011). She is director of Thoreau’s Kalendar: A Digital Archive of the Phenological Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau and incoming editor of the Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies. Randall Conrad, an independent scholar in Lexington, Massachusetts, has contributed Thoreau studies to the Concord Saunterer, the Thoreau Society Bulletin, ATQ, and other publications. He is the translator of François Specq’s Transcendence (2006) and tends the Thoreau Project website at www.calliope.org/thoreau/. David Dowling, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, has published numerous books and articles on media and publishing in nineteenth-century American history and contemporary culture. His books include Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth Century America (lsu), The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America (Palgrave), Chasing the White Whale: The Moby-Dick Marathon; or, What Melville Means Today (Iowa), and Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market (Iowa). Michel Granger is professor emeritus of American literature at the University of Lyon (Lyon 2). He is the author of Henry D. Thoreau. Narcisse à Walden (Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1991), and Henry David Thoreau. Paradoxes d’excentrique (Paris: Belin, 1999). He has edited collections of essays on Thoreau, including “Cahier de l’Herne”: Henry D. Thoreau (Paris: L’Herne, 1994) and Henry D. Thoreau. Désobéir (Paris: 10/18, 1997). He has introduced and edited several new translations of Thoreau’s works: Essais (translated by N. Mallet; Marseille: Le Mot et le Reste, 2007), Walden (translated by Brice Matthieussent; Marseille: Le Mot et le Reste, 2010), and Résistance au gouvernement civil et autres textes (translated by N. Mallet; Marseille: Le Mot et le Reste, 2011) and is currently preparing a selection of extracts from Thoreau’s Journal. Prof. Granger is a former president of the French Association for American Studies and a former editor of Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Contributors 294 Contributors Michel Imbert is associate professor at the University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot). His articles deal mainly with Herman Melville and nineteenth-century American literature . His more recent publications include two articles on Thoreau: “L’ensauvagement du savoir, de Henry Lewis Morgan à Henry David Thoreau (League of the Iroquois, The Maine Woods),” in La fabrique du sauvage dans la culture nord-américaine, edited by Véronique Beghain and Lionel Larré (pu Bordeaux, 2009), and “Le seuil de résistance dans Resistance to Civil Government,” in Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre, edited by Thomas Constantinesco and Antoine Traisnel, Actes de la recherche à l’ENS, no. 7 (2011). Michael Jonik is lecturer at the University of Sussex in the School of English and American Studies. He was previously a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society for the Humanities and visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at Cornell University. His research and teaching examine seventeenth- through nineteenth-century American and transatlantic literary and intellectual history in relationship to the history of science, religious studies, and philosophy. He has recently published essays on Melville in the Oxford Literary Review and Leviathan and is completing two books: A Natural History of the Mind: Science, Form, and Perception from Cotton Mather to William James and Melville’s Uncemented Stones: Character, Impersonality, and the Politics of Singularity. Christian Maul studied English and German literature and linguistics at the University of Heidelberg and at San Francisco State University. He graduated in April 2006 and subsequently pursued a master’s degree in American studies at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. He worked as a teaching assistant at the English Department of the University of Heidelberg and as a trainer for Business English. Dr. Maul is currently teaching English and German at a public Gymnasium near Heidelberg. His PhD dissertation , From Self-Culture to Militancy, from Conscience to Intervention: Henry David Thoreau between Liberalism and Communitarianism (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Vertrag Trier, 2011), aims to shed new light on Thoreau’s concept of individualism from a communitarian perspective. Bruno Monfort is professor of American literature at Université Charles de Gaulle– Lille 3; he has published on Melville, Hawthorne, and nineteenth-century American literature. He has recently translated into French (with...

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