Cynthia Schoolar Williams is Instructor in the Deptartment of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, USA.

'...by gathering what may seem at first glance to be an unusual variety of topics and authors, Williams makes an original contribution to this growing sub-field... sensitive, probing readings.' Evan Gottlieb, The BARS Review

• 1. Keeping Hospitality 2. Mary Shelley at the Threshold: Displacement and Form in Lodore 3. A Sailor's Welcome: James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot and Hospitality in the Coastal Zone 4. Washington Irving and the Citizen as Guest 5. England as Centrifuge: Felicia Hemans and the Threshold Foreclosed

Cynthia Schoolar Williams is Instructor in the Deptartment of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, USA.

'...by gathering what may seem at first glance to be an unusual variety of topics and authors, Williams makes an original contribution to this growing sub-field... sensitive, probing readings.' Evan Gottlieb, The BARS Review

• 1. Keeping Hospitality 2. Mary Shelley at the Threshold: Displacement and Form in Lodore 3. A Sailor's Welcome: James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot and Hospitality in the Coastal Zone 4. Washington Irving and the Citizen as Guest 5. England as Centrifuge: Felicia Hemans and the Threshold Foreclosed

Cynthia Schoolar Williams is Instructor in the Deptartment of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, USA.

'...by gathering what may seem at first glance to be an unusual variety of topics and authors, Williams makes an original contribution to this growing sub-field... sensitive, probing readings.' Evan Gottlieb, The BARS Review

• 1. Keeping Hospitality 2. Mary Shelley at the Threshold: Displacement and Form in Lodore 3. A Sailor's Welcome: James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot and Hospitality in the Coastal Zone 4. Washington Irving and the Citizen as Guest 5. England as Centrifuge: Felicia Hemans and the Threshold Foreclosed