The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Scott Michaelsen writes on Ameiican fiction, as well as legal, political , economic, and anthropological ihetoiic. He recently has published an essay on John Winthrop in Early American Literature, is completing a book entitled Mark Twain's Capitalism, and cunently is writing on native Iroquois anthropologies. marc DOLAN has wiitten on structuralism, televised serial narrative, and the myth of "The Lost Generation," among othet topics. This essay will seive as the prelude to a laiger re-interpretation of Melville 's cateet, another portion of which will appeal in ESQ in 1993. MYLENE dressler is a doctoral candidate in English at Rice Univeisity . She has contributed to American Literature, and to the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. kevin railey is an Assistant Professor at Buffalo State University, where he teaches American Literature and English Education. He is cunently co-editing a collection of essays on Faulkner and critical theory. charles Scruggs teaches Ameiican literature at the University of Arizona. His forthcoming book, Sweet Home: Cities in the Afro-American Novel, will be published this winter by the Johns Hopkins University Press. ...