Contributors
- Contributors
Chris Baggs teaches at the Department of Information and Library Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His research interests and numerous publications center on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century library and reading history in the British Isles, especially in relation to a working-class audience. He is currently running a funded research project examining the value of annual reports from British public libraries between 1850 and 1919 as primary sources in library, reading, and cultural history.
John Barnard is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute of Bibliography and Textual Criticism in the School of English, the University of Leeds. He has published on seventeenth-century book history, Restoration literature, Pope, Keats, and the Romantics and is co-editing volume 4 of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 1557-1695.
Troy J. Bassett is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Kansas. He has published on W. Somerset Maugham and is working on a dissertation examining British publishing practices in the 1880s and 1890s. [End Page 371]
Rimi B. Chatterjee has studied in India and Britain and now teaches English at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She is writing a book on the Indian business of Macmillan and another on Oxford University Press in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has worked as an assistant editor at Bhatkal and Sen, Calcutta-based publishers of the academic lists Stree and Samya.
Thomas J. Cragin is an Assistant Professor of European History at Widener University. His several articles focus on the depiction of criminality in the French popular press; the place of sensationalism in European popular presses; and the history of journalism, publishing, and printing in Europe. He is preparing a book-length study of the representation of crime and justice in the popular press of nineteenth-century France.
Robert Darnton is Davis Professor of European History at Princeton University. The latest of his works about the history of books are The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995) and its companion volume The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789 (1995).
Paul C. Gutjahr is an Assistant Professor of English, American Studies, and Religious Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880 (Stanford University Press, 1999), the co-editor of Illuminating Letters: Essays on Typography and Literary Interpretation (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), and the editor of an anthology titled Popular American Literature of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2001).
Elaine Hoag is Rare Book Bibliographer at the National Library of Canada. Her previous article on Arctic shipboard printing appeared in the spring 2000 issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. She is presently investigating how the "Caxtons of the North" coped with the constraints of their underequipped printing offices by using methods similar to those of Europe's earliest printers.
Eric Lupfer is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin. In his dissertation he examines the publication and reception of literary naturism at the turn of the twentieth century. [End Page 372]
Matthew Skelton, a graduate of the University of Alberta, is currently completing his D.Phil. dissertation, "Some Aspects of the Cultural and Publishing Politics of H. G. Wells, 1895-1920," at the University of Oxford. The research for his essay in the present volume could not have been accomplished without generous financial assistance from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund, the Canadian Women's Club of London, and Somerville College, Oxford.
Eugenia Roldán Vera is about to finish her Ph.D. in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. She did her first degree in history at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and a master's at the University of Warwick. Her dissertation focuses on the publishing enterprise of Rudolph Ackermann for Spanish America in the 1820s and 1830s. She has published essays on various topics in the history of education in nineteenth-century Spanish America.
Christina M. Walter is a Ph.D. student specializing in late Victorian...
