John Carlos Rowe is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Among his many published works are "The Other Henry James" (1998) and "At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature" (1997), and, as editor, "Culture and the Problem of the Disciplines" (1998). His most recent book is "Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II "(2000).