Elizabeth Hewitt, Professor of English, Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Elizabeth Hewitt is a professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, Columbus. She is the author of Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865 (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and editor of The Letters and Early Epistolary Writings of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe: A Case Study in Critical Controversy.

"Speculative Fictions will alter the way we must read the period of the framers, economic writing, and literary writing of many forms. Hewitt's volume should inspire us to read through her lens the more traditionally labeled literature we tend to teach, and to broaden the forms of literature we include in syllabi." -- Howard Horwitz, The University of Utah

"This is a timely and important work—deeply and creatively researched, expansive, interdisciplinary (without cliché), and original in conception and execution." -- Philip Gould, Brown University

"Hewitt makes a compelling, lucid, and insightful case for reading what are now considered the separate domains of early economic theory and literature as interdependent and mutually illuminating...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- A. T. Hale, University of Puget Sound, CHOICE