The New Millennium Library brings you an ever growing list of well-known classics as well as lesser-known treasures and hard to find popular works from the past that have, up until now, been difficult to keep available. All titles in The New Millennium Library are available at www.toexcel.com for free online browsing in attractively designed, easy to read formats. Most important, all titles can be printed, upon demand, as beautifully designed paperback editions like this one. About the EditorAssociate Professor Director of Graduate Studies Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University John Michael works in nineteenth-century American literature, critical theory, and cultural studies. His research interests include contemporary relations between academic intellectuals and popular politics, the problematics of national identity in American literary romances and films, and the complex interrelations between the interpretation of literature and the reading of history. Professor Michael has taught at the University of Warsaw (Poland), the Johns Hopkins University, and the State of University of New York, Geneseo. He is author of Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World; articles on Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, neo-pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, Eastern Europe, Stephen Hawking, intellectuals, and contemporary cultural politics. Courses in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, critical theory, intellectuals and intellectual history. Email: jnml@troi.cc.rochester.edu