About the Author

Peter Edgerly Firchow, internationally recognized scholar and author of numerous works including Reluctant Modernists, W. H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry, Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's ""Heart of Darkness,"" The End of Utopia, and most recently Modern Utopian Fictions from H. G. Wells to Iris Murdoch, is professor of English at the University of Minnesota.