About the Author

Rodney D. Olsen is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at The American University. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Early American History and Culture, the Institute for Medical Humanities, the Winterthur Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and Rice University. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Reviews

"Dancing in Chains is far more than a sensitive biography (though it is surely that); it is also a model of psychologically informed social and cultural history. Olsen recognizes that psychic conflicts often play themselves out on a higher plane, that psychic and intellectual history are intertwined. He presents a wonderful nuanced picture of Howells." --Jackson Lears,Rutgers University