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Contributors HILDEGARD HOELLER ... Associate Professor of English at the College of Staten Island -City University ofNewYork, is the author ofEdith lIVharton's Dialogue with Realism andSentimental FIction (2000), the coauthor with Rebecca Brittenham of Kry Words for Academic Writers (2004), and the editor ofa forthcoming Norton Critical Edition ofHoratio Alger's Ragged Dick. She has published articles on nineteenthand twentieth-century American literature in suchjournals as American Literature, Studies in American Fiction, African American Review, ATQ: American Transcendental QuarterJy, American Literary Realism, Dreiser Studies, and the Edith lIVharton Review. DAVID M. ROBINSON . .. Oregon Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Oregon University, is author ofEmerson and the Conduct ofLife (1993) ]Vatural Life: Thoreau's WorldJy Transcendentalism (2004). He also writes "Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Transcendentalism," the annual review of scholarship in the field published in American Litera!:v Scholarship. FRANCOIS SPECQ ... is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Universite de Lyon, France) and a researcher affiliated with LIRE-SEMA (UMR 56n). He is the author of Transcendence: Seers and Seekers in the Age ofThoreau (2006) and has published translations and critical studies ofworks by David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, and Frederick Douglass. JEFFREY STEELE . .. Sally Mead Hands Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of The Representation ofthe Self in the American Renaissance (1987), The Essential Margaret Fuller (1992), and TransfiguringAmerica: MYth, Ideology, andMourning in Margaret Fuller's Writing (2001), as well as numerous articles on nineteenth-century American literature. He is the immediate past President and current Executive Officer of the Margaret Fuller Society, as well as a member ofthe ..c-\dvisory Board ofthe Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Currently, he is working on a book-length study ofantebellum urban writing, including texts by Margaret Fuller and Lydia Maria Child. ...

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