Contributors
- Contributors
Nicholas Daly (nicholas.daly@ucd.ie) is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at UCD, having previously taught at Trinity College Dublin, and held visiting positions at Wesleyan University, CT, and Dartmouth College, NH. The author of 3 monographs and sundry articles on Victorian and twentieth-century literature and culture, he is currently working on a study of some of the influential images and narratives of the city that circulated among nineteenth-century France, Britain and the U.S. this essay is based on a section of that study.
Gowan Dawson (gd31@leicester.ac.uk) is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and co-author of Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Currently he is writing a new book entitled 'Show Me the Bone': Fragmentary Fossils, Functionalist Palaeontology and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Creatures in Nineteenth-Century British and American Culture, and is general editor, with Bernard Lightman, of an eight-volume series on Victorian Science and Literature (Pickering and Chatto, forthcoming).
Elaine Hadley (ehadley@uchicago.edu) teaches at the University of Chicago. She is currently working on a new project, its working title "Partial War," which seeks to understand the relations among the emergent liberal public sphere, war, the empire and the new media of the mid-nineteenth century.
Sebastian Lecourt (sebastian.lecourt@yale.edu) is a graduate student in the Yale University Department of English, where he is currently completing a dissertation entitled Culture and Secularity: Religion, Anthropology, and the Victorian Liberal Imagination. His work has previously appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture.
Kirstie M. McClure (kmmac@ucla.edu) is Associate Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and English at UCLA. Her publications include Judging Rights: Lockean Politics and the Limits of Consent (1996) and Feminist Interpretations of John Locke (co-editor, 2007). Her current project, Young Mill: Utilitarianism and its Others, explores alternative perspectives on the pragmatics of reform and revolution in nineteenthcentury Europe.
Helen Small (helen.small@pmb.ox.ac.uk) is Fellow in English at Pembroke College, Oxford. Her most recent book is The Long Life (2007). She has written a number of essays on Victorian liberalism, including "On Conflict," in Dinah Birch and Mark Llewellyn (eds.), Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2010), and has recently edited The Eustace Diamonds for Oxford World's Classics. [End Page 389]
James Vernon (jvernon@berkeley.edu) is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Politics and the People (1993) and Hunger: A Modern History (2007), and editor of Rereading the Constitution and (with Simon Gunn) The Peculiarities of the Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (2011). He is currently working on an interpretive history of British modernity.
Clare Anderson (clare.anderson@warwick.ac.uk) is Reader in Sociology at the University of Warwick and editor of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Her research focuses on colonial prisons and penal colonies in Mauritius, Australia, and South and Southeast Asia. She is the author of Convicts in the Indian Ocean (2000), Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia (2004), The Indian Uprising of 1857–8 (2007), and Subaltern Lives (2011). She is currently principal investigator for the international collaborative project Integrated Histories of the Andaman Islands, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Victor Bailey (vbailey@ku.edu) is Distinguished Professor of Modern British History and Director of the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. He is the author of Delinquency and Citizenship: Reclaiming the Young Offender, 1914–1948 (1987) and "This Rash Act": Suicide Across the Life-Cycle in the Victorian City (1998), and editor of Forged in Fire: The History of the Fire Brigades Union (1992). His current project is "Crime and Police in Victorian London."
Mary Wilson Carpenter (carpentm@queensu.ca), Professor Emerita at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, is the author of Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market (2003), George Eliot and the Landscape of Time: Narrative Form and Protestant Apocalyptic History...
