Jane P. TompkinsJane P. Thompkins has written widely on the work of Charles Borckden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chopin, and Henry James. Her work includes Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work from American iction, West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns, and A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned. Read More Read Less