The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Herbert N. schneidau received his B.A. from Dartmouth, and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He has taught at Duke, SUNY/Buffalo, UC Santa Barbara, and Arizona; he is the author, mostly recently, of Waking Giants: The Presence of the Past in Modernism (Oxford, 1991). professor fred see is working on essays having to do with electronic rather than geographical ideas of the frontier. john t. Irwin is Decker Professor in the Humanities and chairman of The Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University. Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story was published earlier this year by the Hopkins Press, and he is now hard at work completing a book on Hart Crane's poetry. gale h. carrithers, jr., Professor ofEnglish at LSU, has Milton and the HermeneuticJourney appearing from LSU Press in Fall, 1994, and an article on the politics of Donne's sermons in The John Donne Journal, both co-authored with James D. Hardy, Jr. They have recently submitted the book-length "The Age of Iron: Seventeenth Century Tropologies of Love and Power," and are working on two books, one on theory, the other a companion to Mumford, Tate, Eiseley: Watchers in the Night (LSU Press, 1991). richard lehan, Professor of English and American Literature at UCLA, has written books on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser, and American Literary Existentialism. His most recent book is The Great Gatsby: The Limits of Wonder (G. K. Hall, 1990). Joseph kronick is the co-editor of the LSU Press series Horizons in Theory and American Culture, as well as of the volume Theorizing American Literature: Hegel, the Sign, and History. He is currently completing a manuscript on representation in Heidegger, Derrida, and Edmond Jabès. ...