Lara Langer Cohen is Assistant Professor of English at Swarthmore College. She is the author of The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) and co-editor, with Jordan Alexander Stein, of Early African American Print Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Currently, she is working on a book project, Before Subculture, about nineteenth-century ideas of the underground.