Jennifer Greiman is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, US. She is the author of "Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing" (Fordham 2010), as well as essays on Gustave de Beaumont, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe. Paul Stasi is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, US. He is the author of "Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense" (2012), as well as essays on T.S. Eliot, Richard Flannagan, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Jean Toomer.