Peter Edgerly Firchow is an internationally recognized scholar and author of numerous works including: Reluctant Modernists (Munster: LIT Publishers, 2002); W. H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry (Univ of Delaware Press, 2002); Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' (Univ Press of Kentucky, 1999); The End of Utopia (Bucknell Univ Press, 1984).