Nancy Bentley

Nancy Bentley is a Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also published a book with Cambridge University Press, The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton, and has edited (with Sandra Gunning) a novel by Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition, that appeared with Bedford Books. She has published essays on topics such as law and literature, African American fiction, and theories of the novel as a genre.