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  • Contributors

Anna Barton is a lecturer in English at Keele University. Her research in Victorian poetry covers a wide range of topics including literary identity and print culture, the lyric and nonsense literature. She has published articles on these topics in VP, TRB, VLC and VN. Her monograph Tennyson’s Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson was published by Ashgate in November 2008. She is currently working on a study of Victorian liberal poetics.

Erik Gray is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Poetry of Indifference (2005) and Milton and the Victorians (2009) and editor of Tennyson’s In Memoriam (2004).

Irene Hsiao received her Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Chicago, with a dissertation called “blackberry, blackberry, blackberry: Melancholic Repetition and the Romantic Lyric.” She has written articles on William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke, William Wordsworth, and Peter Pan. She currently lives in Hong Kong.

Richard Maxwell teaches in the Comparative Literature Department at Yale University. He is the author of The Mysteries of Paris and London (1992) and The Historical Novel in Europe 1650–1950 (2009), and has edited The Victorian Illustrated Book (2002) and, with Katie Trumpener, The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period (2008). He is currently thinking and writing about landscape, travel, and geography from Humboldt to the present.

Anne McCarthy is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is at work on her dissertation, “Left Hanging: Suspension and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry.”

James Nohrnberg has taught at Toronto, Harvard, Yale, and, since 1975, at the University of Virginia, and has given lectures on the Bible for Princeton University’s Gauss Seminars in Criticism and Indiana University’s Institute for Advanced Study. His publications include The Analogy of ‘The Faerie Queene’ (1976, 1980) and Like unto Moses: The Constituting of an Interruption (1995). Besides Spenser and scripture, he has lectured and published on allegory, Homer, Dante, Boiardo, Shakespeare, Raleigh, Milton, Thomas Pynchon, and his teacher Northrop Frye. He reports having Dante, Milton, and Bible projects in the works, and also expects to offer more studies in Shakespeare. [End Page 349]

Robert L. Patten, Lynette S. Autrey Professor in Humanities at Rice University, is Publisher and Executive Editor of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. He has published extensively on Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, nineteenth-century European art and print culture, and Victorian book history; it is in conjunction with his research on British periodicals that this essay on Tennyson arises. At present he is engaged in two projects: a study of the uses of anonymity and pseudonymity in Victorian publishing, and an analysis of the ways in which Charles Dickens struggled in his early years to formulate conceptions of authorship.

Timothy Peltason teaches at Wellesley College where he is also Director of the Newhouse Center for the Humanities. He is the author of Reading “In Memoriam” (Princeton Univ. Press, 1986) and of numerous other essays on Victorian poetry and fiction. He is currently at work on two different projects: a series of essays on the character of literary judgment and a book on Oscar Wilde.

Linda h. Peterson is Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University and author of the forthcoming book, Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship, Facts of the Victorian Market (Princeton Univ. Press, 2009). She has previously published articles in Victorian Poetry on Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Victorian anthologies of women’s poetry.

William H. Pritchard is Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College. His books include studies of Frost, Randall Jarrell, John Updike, and a forthcoming collection of essays, On Poets and Poetry, published by Swallow Press.

Ingrid Ranum is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Her article “A Woman’s Castle Is Her Home: Matthew Arnold’s ‘Tristram and Iseault’” is forthcoming in Victorian Poetry, and she continues to work on intersections of nineteenthcentury domesticity and medievalism.

D. B. Ruderman teaches English at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is also a 2008/2009 fellow...

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