Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Christine Bold is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alberta. Sheis the author of Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 to 1960 (1987), and is currently working on the WPA Arts Projects of the 1930s. Mark A. Cheetham is Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at The University of Western Ontario. He is the author of "Mystical Memories: Gauguin's Neoplatonism and 'Abstraction' in Late 19th-Century French Painting," Art Journal (1986) and is completing a book on the theoretical foundations of abstract painting entitled The Rhetoric of Purity: Neoplatonism and the Advent of AbstractPainting, 1880- 1940. John Conran is Associate Professor of the English and Director of American Studies Program at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. His publications over the past five years, including the essay here, reflect progress on his forthcoming book (1989) American Picturesque, which traces the spread of the picturesque aesthetic in nineteenth-century American culture and its impact on painting, landscape gardening and prose narrative. Bruce Daniels is Professor of History at The University of Winnipeg. He is a former co-editor of CRAS and the author of several books, the most recent of which is Dissent and Conformity on Narragansett Bay: The Colonial Rhode IslandTown (1983-). Edward Hagerman is Associate Professor of History at York University. He is author of The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare (forthcoming , spring 1988). His research is on the history of intellectual and institutional culture in nineteenth and twentieth-century America, specializing in problems of war and culture and the intellectual culture of academics. George Thomas Kapelos is an urban planner in Toronto. He is currently part of the team designing the CBC' s new Broadcast Centre, and broadcasts weekly for CBC Radio on architecture and urban design. He is a founding member of the Bureau of Architecture and Urbanism, a non-profit organization, whose goals are the preservation of modern architecture in Toronto. Patrick Maynard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Western Ontario. He has recently published on the aesthetics of photography in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and on cave painting in Current Anthropology commentaries. His current research is on ancient philosophy (Plato), and on aesthetics of domestic arts including landscape gardening, design, decoration. William R. Morrison is Professor of History at Brandon University. He is author of Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in TheNorth, 1894-1925 (Vancouver, 1985), and is currently working on a history of the Yukon. Notes on Contributors Richard Morton is Professor of English at McMaster University. His most recent publication in CRAS was in Vol. 16, No. 2, 1985. He has a forthcoming monograph on the theme of redemption in the poetry of Anne Sexton, andis currently working on techniques of prayer in Edward Taylor's poetry. Anne Murray de Fort-Menares is presently taking a M. Phil. at Cambridge University. She has worked as architectural history consultant for the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture, Ontario, and the Ontario Heritage Foundation. She has recent publications in Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Architecturein Canada. Shane O'Dea is Professor of English and Architectural History at Memorial University. He has written a number of papers on Newfoundland architecture and is currently working on the architecture and the perception of architecture in St. John's following the Great Fire of 1892. Donald J. Olsen is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College. He15 author the The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna ( 1986), and isabout to embark on a study of Britjsh cities overseas. Kevin Radaker is a lecturer at Penn State University. He has recently completed his dissertation, a comparative analysis of Thoreau's verbal landscapes and mid-nineteenth-century American landscape painting, and has published in Mid-Hudson Language Studies, 1986. His research interests include Transcendentalism , literary realism, and nineteenth-century American culture. Barbara J. Todd is Assistant Professor of History at The University of Western Ontario. She has an essay in Women in English Society, 1500-1800 (1985) and another in English Rural Society, 1500-1800 (Forthcoming). Her research interests include women's history in England and North...