Contributors
- Contributors
Ian Campbell is one of the editors of the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Vols. 1–37, 1970–2008, continuing). With K. J. Fielding, Ian edited Carlyle’s Reminiscences (Oxford UP 1997), and his Thomas Carlyle (Hamish Hamilton 1974) was revised and republished in 1993 (Saltire Society). He has also produced Thomas Carlyle (Longman for the British Council 1978), which was collected and reprinted in Writers and Their Work IV (Scribner 1981). He works and publishes on a wide range of associated authors and subjects, drawing on the valuable archives in Edinburgh. He has edited and/or authored Nineteenth Century Scottish Fiction: Critical Essays (Carcanet 1978); Robert Louis Stevenson: Selected Short Stories (Ramsay Head 1980); and a series of reprints and new editions of a variety of Scottish writers (such as Gibbon, Lockhart, Galt, and Barrie). He is general editor of the Carlyle Society Occasional Papers, president of the Carlyle Society and (for 2006–07) of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
Owen Dudley Edwards, FRSE, renowned author, editor, broadcaster, and lecturer, is Honorary Fellow in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He is general editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series, and he has written studies of T. B. Macaulay, Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, James Connolly, and Oscar Wilde, as well as British Children’s Fiction in the Second World War and Burke and Hare. He is a regular contributor to Carlyle Studies Annual, and his essay, “The Tone of the Preacher: Carlyle as Public Lecturer in Heroes and Hero-Worship,” was included in the Yale edition of Heroes (Yale UP 2013), ed. David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser.
Lowell T. Frye is Elliott Professor of Rhetoric and Humanities at Hampden-Sydney College. He has written on the novels of Walter Scott, the ghost stories of Amelia Edwards, M. E. Braddon, and E. Nesbit, and the post-Darwinian ethics of Thomas Huxley and Frances Cobbe, but his primary scholarly focus has been on the work of Thomas Carlyle. He served on the editorial board of the Carlyle Encyclopedia and contributed several articles on Carlyle’s imaginative interaction with Edmund Burke, William Cobbett, Robert Southey, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. More recently, his essay on Carlyle’s Latter-Day Pamphlets appeared in a special issue of Literature and Belief, edited by Paul Kerry, [End Page 185 ] devoted to Carlyle and religion; his essay “History as Biography, Biography as History” will appear in a volume of essays on Carlyle co-edited by Marylu Hill and Paul Kerry; and he spoke on “The Anxiety of Influence” at the Carlyle Conference in Dumfries, Scotland, in 2008. Currently Frye is a co-editor, with John Ulrich, of the Strouse Edition of Carlyle’s essays on politics and society, to be published by the U of California P.
Tamara Gosta is assistant professor of English at the American University of Kuwait. She defended her dissertation, “Persistent Pasts: Historical Palimpsests in Nineteenth-Century British Prose,” at Georgia State University in 2010. Her article on Scott, “Sir Walter’s Palimpsests: Material Imprints and the Trace of the Past,” appeared in the European Romantic Review in 2011. She also has a specific interest in the work of the contemporary Serbian-Jewish writer David Albahari, on whom she has publications forthcoming in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction and World Literature Today.
Brent E. Kinser is assistant professor of English at Western Carolina University and coordinating editor of The Carlyle Letters Online (Duke UP 2007), the electronic version of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Duke UP 1970–), for which he serves as an editor. He is also co-editor (with David R. Sorensen) of Carlyle Studies Annual, co-editor (with Rodger L. Tarr) of The Uncollected Writings of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (UP of Florida 2007), and co-editor (with Anna Lillios) of the Journal of Florida Literature. In addition to various articles on the Carlyles, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, D. H. Lawrence, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, he is working with Fleming McLelland to edit Carlyle’s Literary Essays for the Strouse edition of Carlyle’s works...
