John Wiley - A Companion to American Literary Studies

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.

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Nancy Bentley is professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Ethnography of Manners (1995) and Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 18701920 (2009). She is currently working on a study of kinship and the novel in the Americas.

Michael Brub is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature and the director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. His most recent books are Whats Liberal about the Liberal Arts? (2006) and The Left at War (2009). He is also the editor of The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (2004).

Anna Brickhouse is associate professor of English and American studies at the University of Virginia, and the author of Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (2004). She is currently completing a book on stories of failed translation and mistranslation in the Americas.

Russ Castronovo is the Dorothy Draheim Professor of English at the University of WisconsinMadison. He is the author of Fathering the Nation (1995), Necro Citizenship (2001), and Beautiful Democracy (2007), and the editor of several volumes, including The Oxford Handbook to Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2011).

Matt Cohen is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a contributing editor at the Walt Whitman Archive and the author of The Networked Universe: Communicating in Early New England (2009).

James H. Cox is associate professor of English and the director of the Indigenous Studies Graduate Portfolio at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions (2006) and Literary Revolutions: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico, 19201960 (forthcoming). He is also the coeditor of the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures .

Elizabeth Fenton is assistant professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (2011).

Shelley Fisher Fishkin is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and director of American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author, editor, or coeditor of over 40 books on American literature and culture, most recently the Library of Americas The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works (2010). She is a founding editor of The Journal of Transnational American Studies .