Jewel Spears Brooker is the author of T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination; Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism; and (with Joseph Bentley) Reading “The Waste Land”: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation. She has coedited two volumes of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot and is professor emerita of English literature at Eckerd College.
Peter Burke, professor emeritus of cultural history at Cambridge University and a life fellow of Emmanuel College, is the author of thirty books, including The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag; A Social History of Knowledge (in two volumes); Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge; Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe; The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy; Italian Renaissance Culture and Society; The Art of Conversation; The French Historical Revolution; and...