Samuels, Shirley

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SAMUELS, Shirley

SAMUELS, Shirley. American, b. 1957. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Women's studies and issues. Career: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, assistant professor of English, 1985-86; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, assistant professor, 1986-92, associate professor of English, 1992-. Publications: (ed.) The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America, 1992; Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation, 1996. Address: Department of English, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A.