NINA BAYM is Professor of English an Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of many books, including Feminism and American Literary History and American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860, both published by Rutgers University Press.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionSelected BibliographyA Note on the TextThe LamplighterAppendix: The EpigraphsExplanatory Notes

NINA BAYM is Professor of English an Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of many books, including Feminism and American Literary History and American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860, both published by Rutgers University Press.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionSelected BibliographyA Note on the TextThe LamplighterAppendix: The EpigraphsExplanatory Notes

NINA BAYM is Professor of English an Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of many books, including Feminism and American Literary History and American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860, both published by Rutgers University Press.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionSelected BibliographyA Note on the TextThe LamplighterAppendix: The EpigraphsExplanatory Notes