Notes on Contributors
Timothy Alborn is Associate Professor of History at Lehman College and the City University of New York. He has published Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England (Routledge, 1998); 'Senses of Belonging: The Politics of Working-Class Insurance in Britain, 1880-1914', in Journal of Modern History (2001); and 'The First Fund Managers: Life Insurance Bonuses in Victorian Britain', in Victorian Studies (2002). He is presently completing a book on the history of British life insurance in the nineteenth century.
Peter Bailey is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba. A paperback edition of his Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City (Cambridge University Press) appeared in 2003.
Tim Barringer has published widely on British art and visual culture, art and empire, and on American art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His books include Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (Yale University Press, 1999); American Sublime (with Andrew Wilton,Tate/Princeton, 2002) and Men at Work: Art and Labour in mid-Victorian Britain (Yale University Press/Paul Mellon Centre, 2005). He is editor of Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum (with Tom Flynn, Routledge, 1997) and (with Elizabeth Prettejohn) Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity (Yale University Press, 1998).
Ruth Clayton Windscheffel has MAs from Oxford and London, and a PhD from the University of Liverpool. She is the Julia Mann Junior Research Fellow in History at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently preparing a book on W.E. Gladstone's library and reading for Palgrave Macmillan. Her other main research interest is in the visual representation of nineteenth and early twentieth century political figures.
Jason Edwards is a lecturer in Art History at the University of York. He is the author of Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Pater, Leighton and Burne-Jones (2006), and is currently working on a monograph on queer theorist, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
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Lawrence Goldman is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Modern History, specialising in British and American History since 1750. He is also the Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), published by Oxford University Press. He is the author of Science, Reform and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886 (CUP, 2002) and Dons and Workers: Oxford and Adult Education Since 1850 (OUP, 1995). He edited the collection The Blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British Liberalism (CUP, 1989) and has published articles in journals including the English Historical Review, Past and Present, and The Historical Journal.
Ian Haywood is Reader in English at Roehampton University, and Director of the Centre for Research in Romanticism. His most recent book is The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People 1790-1860 (Cambridge University Press, 2004). He is now working on a book entitled 'Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation 1776-1832', to be published by Palgrave.
Joanna Innes is Winifred Holtby Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Somerville College, Oxford. She is interested in English social policy from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, in its British and European context. She has published numerous articles on the eighteenth century, and is currently working on two volumes of her collected essays. Her research focus is now shifting to the early nineteenth century. She is the editor, with Arthur Burns, of Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850 (Oxford, 2003). She was for ten years editor of the journal Past and Present, and has recently held visiting fellowships and professorships in Australia and Japan.
Caroline Jackson-Houlston is senior lecturer in English Studies at Oxford Brookes University, concentrating on the Victorian and Romantic periods. Her main research interests are interdisciplinary and centre on gender and/or allusion, as in her 1999 monograph Ballads, Songs and Snatches. She is also a practising botanical artist.
Rohan Maitzen is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of Gender, Genre, and VictorianHistorical Writing (Garland, 1998), as well as articles on Carlyle, Scott, Victorian women historians and, most recently, George Eliot and philosopher Martha Nussbaum. Her current research is on Victorian ethical criticism of the novel.
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Francis O'Gorman is Reader in Victorian Literature at the University
of Leeds, UK. With Katherine Turner, he edited The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition (2004). Forthcoming books include an edited collection of essays on Victorian Literature and Capital and a study of nineteenth-century anxieties aboutinfluence entitled Victorian Literary Survival.
Richard Price is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of several works on the history of British labour. His most recent publication is British Society 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999). His current research concerns the encounter between the British and the Xhosa in Southern Africa, 1820-1870.
Anne Schwan is an Associate Lecturer in English at the University of Hertfordshire and also teaches at Birkbeck College. She has recently
co-edited a special issue of Critical Survey on 'Dickens and Sex' which includes her article on gender dissidence in Dombey and Son. Anne is currently working on a project on representations of female prisoners and Victorian convict (auto)biography.
Roy Vickers teaches in the Department of English at Liverpool John Moores University. He is also editor of the forthcoming Conduct Literature for Women Part V, 1830-1900 (Pickering and Chatto, 2006).
