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THE CONTRIBUTORS christopher Gaul is a graduate student at Northwestern University . He is currently working on his dissertation "Ineffable Socialities : Epistemology, Affect, and Manhood in Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville." alan ackerman is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and the author of The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage. nancy CERVETTi is Chait of Humanities and Associate Professor of English at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri. As part of her research on the life and writings of S. Weir Mitchell, she has traveled to numerous libraries to read all of his surviving letters. Forrest g. robinson is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Ctuz. He has written books and articles on a wide variety of authors and subjects, among them Mark Twain, Wallace Stegner, Henry A. Murray, American popular culture, and the New Western History. He is presently at wotk on a study of Mark Twain's autobiographies. Lynn keller is Professor of English at the University of WisconsinMadison . She is author of Re-Making it New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1987) and Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women (University ofChicago, 1997) and co-editor of Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory (University of Michigan, 1994). ...

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