Richard Fantina teaches English at the University of Miami and is managing editor of the "Journal of Latin American Anthropology," His work has appeared in The "Hemingway Review" and he has presented papers on literary portrayals of gender in modernist, post-modernist, and Victorian texts at numerous academic conferences. In 2003 he was awarded research fellowships from the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) and the Hemingway Society to complete this book.