Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature offers theoretically astute, historicist literary criticism that is both compulsively readable and admirably economical in presentation.
Kelly Ross is Associate Professor of English at Rider University where she teaches courses in American literature, African American literature, and crime fiction and film. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics, The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe, Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition, and Leviathan.