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  • Contributors

Matthew Bevis is a Lecturer in British and American literature at the University of Sheffield. He has recently published articles on Tennyson, Ruskin, and Dickens, and is now writing a book on the relations betwen nineteenth-century oratory and literature.

Florence S. Boos is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the editor of History and Community: Essays in Victorian Medievalism (1992) and author of The Design of William Morris’ The Earthly Paradise (1991).

Joseph Bristow is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He recently edited The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (2000) and Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions (2001), and is currently completing a study of nineteenth poetry and sexual identity for Cambridge University Press.

Benjamin F. Fisher, Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, has published a study of the reception of A Shropshire Lad in A. E. Housman: A Reassessment, ed. Alan W. Holden and J. Roy Birch (1999), and a study of British reception of The Red Badge of Courage in Stephen Crane in War and Peace, ed. James H. Meredith (1999). He is editing the letters of Ella D’Arcy.

Mary Ellis Gibson, Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is author of History and the Prism of Art: Browning’s Poetic Experiments (1987), editor of Critical Essays on Robert Browning (1992), and author of Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians (1995).

Donald E. Hall is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the Humanities Interdisciplinary Program at California State University, Northridge. His recent books include Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists (1996).

Linda K. Hughes is Professor of English at Texas Christian University. She is the author of The Manyfacèd Glass: Tennyson’s Dramatic Monologues (1987) and co-author, with Michael Lund, of The Victorian Serial (1991).

Jeffrey B. Loomis teaches at Northwest Missouri State University. He is the author of Dayspring in Darkness: Sacrament in Hopkins (1988).

Margot K. Louis is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria and author of Swinburne and His Gods: The Roots and Growth of an Agnostic Poetry (1990).

Clinton Machann is Professor of English at Texas A&M University. [End Page 507] Among his recent publications are The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (1994), The Essential Matthew Arnold: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies (1993), and Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life (1998).

Dorothy Mermin is Professor of English at Cornell University. Among her publications are Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Origins of a New Poetry (1989) and Godiva’s Ride: Women of Letters in England 1830-1880 (1993).

Rosemarie Morgan is a Fellow at Yale University. She is author of Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy (1988) and Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy (1992); editor of Days to Recollect: Essays in Honour of Robert Schweik (2000); and, with Richard Nemesvari, of Human Shows: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate (2000).

David G. Riede, Professor of English at Ohio State University, has written books on Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Swinburne. His most recent book is Dante Gabriel Rossetti Revisited (1992).

Kerry McSweeney is Molson Professor of English at McGill University. His most recent books are Supreme Attachments: Studies in Victorian Love Poetry (1998) and The Language of the Senses: Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson (1998).

Christine Wiesenthal is Associate Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Alberta. She has published Figuring Madness in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1997), non-fiction articles, and a poetry collection, Instruments of Surrender (2001). She is currently working on a biography of the late Canadian poet Pat Lowther. [End Page 508]

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