Nancy BentleyNancy Bentley is Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include The Ethnography of Manners and Frantic Panoramas: Mass Culture and American Literature, 1870-1920. She coauthored Vlume 3 of The Cambridge History of American Literature (2005) and is currently writing a book entitled "New World Kinship and American Literature," a study of the way the novel and other genres mediated the multiple forms of kinship in the Americas in the nineteenth century. Read More Read Less