Deborah Elise WhiteDeborah Elise White is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Emory University, USA, and the author of Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History(2000). She edited the Romantic Praxis series volume Irony and lerisy (1998) and has published essays on romanticism and theory in a range of journals including Comparative Literature Yearbook, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, MLN, and Romance Studies. Read More Read Less