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Jeff Morgan is a professor of English at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, and the author of four books, numerous essays and poems. He lives in Boynton Beach, Florida.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionOne. The Nineteenth Century Romantic Novel: ­Moby-Dick and The Scarlet Letter1. Melville’s Liminal One: Ishmael and the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity2. The Scarlet Letter: Four Characters Under the DMISTwo. The ­Nineteenth-Century Realistic Novel: The Country of the Pointed Firs and The American3. Relating to the World in Down East, Maine: Sensitivity in Jewett’s Country4. Satire and Insensitivity to Difference: The Problem in The American through the DMISThree. The ­Twentieth-Century Novel: Invisible Man and For Whom the Bell Tolls5. Invisible Man: An Existential Liminality6. Robert Jordan and the DMIS: A Literary Model for Intercultural SensitivityCoda: A Practical Application to Prepare Students for Study AbroadConclusionBibliographyIndex

“Morgan’s consideration of the behavior of the protagonists in six American classics with the goal of assisting readers in ‘overcoming ethnocentrism’ and ‘to enable successful interaction in a multicultural environment,’ is a potent reminder that even if stories themselves cannot ‘expunge incivility,’ they hold an almost uncanny power to allow readers to transcend one’s personal worldview and understand how another sees it. Scholars and teachers will be heartened by Morgan’s highly topical observations.”—Les Standiford, author of Battle for the Big Top, winner of the Florida Books Awards Gold Medal in Non-Fiction