Mark W. van WienenMark W. Van Wienen is Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. He has published extensively on American literature and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, including essays appearing in American Literature, America Quarterly, American Literary History, and Modern Fiction Studies. His previous books are Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War (Cambridge, 1997), Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War (editor, 2002), and American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). Read More Read Less