Essay on the study of literature and on vocal culture as indispensable to an aesthetic appreciation of poetry

Her books include New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans through Whitman; Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture -851- in Modernist America; and Electronic Hearth: The Acculturation of Television in the United States. John M. Unsworth is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. He is coeditor of Postmodern Culture, an electronic journal available on Bitnet and Internet. He has published articles on John Hawkes, Gilbert Sorrentino, Carlos Baker, Wallace Stevens, Henry Fielding, and electronic publishing. David Van Leer is Associate Professor of Englishand American Literature at the University of California, Davis. Author of Emerson's Epistemology, a study of Emerson and Kant, he is currently at work on a companion volume treating Poe's relation to Newtonian physics. His essays on contemporary culture for The New Republic and elsewhere are collected in The Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society. Cornel West is Professor of Religion and Director of African American Studies at Princeton University ...»