MARC REDFIELD, the editor of this volume, is Professor of English and holds the John D. and Lillian Maguire Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of "The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism and Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman", co-winner of the MLA prize for the best first book in 1996. He has co-edited "High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction".