William E CainWilliam E. Cain is Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. His scholarly interests include nineteenth- and early-twentieth century American literature, modernism in the arts, and Shakespeare. His publications include chapters onAmerican literary and cultural criticism, 1900-1945, in The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 5 (2003). He is coeditor of the Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (1st ed., 2001; 2nd ed., 2010), and, with Sylvan Barnet, he has coauthored a number of books on literature and composition. Read More Read Less