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  • Contributors

Isobel Armstrong is Professor Emeritus in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London. Among her many publications is Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993); in 1996 she coedited, with Joseph Bristow and Cath Sharrock, Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (1996), and, in 1998, with Virginia Blain, Women's Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730–1820. Her most recent book-length publication is The Radical Aesthetic (2000).

Virginia Blain is Professor and Professional Fellow in English at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is editor of Victorian Women Poets (2001), and co-editor, with Isobel Armstrong, of Women's Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730–1820 (1998), and Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre 1830–1900 (1999).

Joseph Bristow is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has recently coedited (with Ian Small), Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oxford English Texts (2003); Oscar Wilde: Contextual Conditions (2002); The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (2000); and, with Isobel Armstrong and Cath Sharrock, Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (1996).

Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University. She is author of a Tennyson monograph and co-author (with Michael Lund) of books on Victorian serial literature and Elizabeth Gaskell. Her recent work includes an anthology of New Woman Poets (Eighteen Nineties Society, 2001) and a forthcoming biography of Rosamund Marriott Watson (“Graham R. Tomson”) (Ohio University Press).

Yopie Prins is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is author of Victorian Sappho (1999) and co-editor of volume 10 of The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Greek Translations (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002).

E. Warwick Slinn is Head of School and Professor of English at Massey University, New Zealand. His publications include Victorian Poetry as Cultural Critique: The Politics of Performative Language (2003), The Discourse of Self in Victorian Poetry (1991), and Browning and Fictions of Identity (1982).

Herbert F. Tucker is John C. Coleman Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he comes up for air from the sloughs of administration to co-edit the Univ. of Virginia Press series in Victorian literature and culture and serve as Associate Editor of NLH. His teaching anthology Victorian Literature 1830–1900, edited with Dorothy Mermin, remains available for course adoption; the contents of his Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture are now available on-line via Blackwell's “Literature Compass” project. In recent articles he addresses William Empson's criticism, Rossetti's Goblin Market, and certain properties of the bivalve or doublestanza Victorian lyric. His long-term project remains “The Proof of Epic in Britain 1790–1910.”

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