Who edited Dickinson for Norton?

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How could we have known? Although Hershel Parker is listed in the front matter as editor of the 1820-1865 section of the first edition of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, page xxxi of the "Preface" to the  second edition says, "In the  

1820-1865 section, Ronald Gottesman prepared the texts and introductions for Lincoln, Stowe, Douglass, and Dickinson."  So Gottesman, who virtually founded American Studies at USC and who has published widely on American film, deserves the credit for his work on the early Norton. The "Preface" to the fourth edition, does not mention Gottesman. Instead, it refers to additional texts from 1820-1865. "A powerful defense of the sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation, the Memorials of the Cherokees link the Native American oratorical tradition to the Euro-American tradition of political protest writing.  A chapter from William Apess's biographical work, The Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequot Tribe, asserts that those who profess Christianity must also uphold racial equality, an argument from faith that resounds in Frederick Douglass's brilliant speech The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, newly anthologized. Six chapters from Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl convey the drama of Linda Brent's bondage and escape, as well as Jacobs' skillful use of melodrama in the cause of abolition.  The period 1820-1865 also includes notable additions to two major authors.  Freshly collated from manuscript is Walt Whitman's poem-sequence Live Oak, with Moss, celebrating sexual  "adhesiveness" of man for man.  These poems are here restored to Whitman's first and most personal ordering. The headnote to Dickinson has been entirely rewritten and appropriately expanded; her poetry has been enriched with twenty-seven new poems that reveal both her growing self-awareness as a poet and her connection to other poets and writers--Shakespeare, the Brownings, the Brontes."  None of these changes seem inconsistent with Hershel Parker's  interests, so I infer that he took over editorship of the whole of this section  for the fourth edition. 

[hersh]

I insisted that something be said in the second edition but not many people noticed.