Contributors

Contributors RITA BODE ... teaches in the Department ofEnglish Literature at Trent University , Oshawa campus, Ontario, Canada. Research interests include both American and British authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bode's other recent work in nineteenth -century American literature is a chapter on Mof?y-Dick in the forthcoming Melville and Wlmen, edited by Haskell Springer and Elizabeth Schultz (Kent State Univ. Press). DAVID H. EVANS . .. Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, has published in Arizona QuarterJy, Dalhousie Review , and Mississippi QuarterJy, among other venues. He is currently working on a book titled "The Plot of Nature," a study oftreatments ofnature and national identity in twentieth-century American literature. T. WALTER HERBERT . .. is Professor of English and University Scholar at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He is a past president of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, and his work includes DearestBeloved : Hawthorne andthe Makingofthe Middle-Class FamiJy (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, I993) and Sexual Violence and American Manhood (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2002.) 351 JUUE HUSBAND . .. is Assistant Professor of nineteenth-century American literature at the University of Northern Iowa. She has coauthored a book with Jim O'Loughlin-DaiJy Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900 (Greenwood Press, 2004)-and has published articles on Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, the Lowell factory women, and Philip Roth. Her recent work focuses on the adaptation of antislavery rhetoric and icons to speak about Northern class relations in the antebellum era, looking specificallyat Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Lowell factory women, and Martin Delany. 352 ...