Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature: Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville

JANA ARGERSINGER is an editor of Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation; past president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals; and co-editor of three collections: Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism, with Phyllis Cole (U of Georgia P, 2014); Hawthorne and Melville: Writing a Relationship, with Leland Person (U of Georgia P, 2008); and Poe Writing / Writing Poe, with Richard Kopley (AMS, 2013). She has published articles on nineteenth-century American literature, especially women writers, in American Literature, the Edgar Allan Poe Review, Documentary Editing, and Profession. Her current work-in-progress explores relational aesthetics in the epistolary journals of the Peabody sisters.