Contributors
- Contributors
Jonathan Andrews is a Reader in the History of Psychiatry at Newcastle University. He has published three monographs in the field, most recently (with Andy Scull) Undertaker of the Mind (2001) and Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade (2003). He has published four edited collections, including, with Leslie Topp and James Moran, Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment (2007). He also guest edited a special edition of the History of Psychiatry entitled "Lunacy's Last Rites" (2012).
Stephen Bending is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. He has published widely on gardens and literature in the eighteenth century and is co-editor of the Pickering and Chatto Chawton House Library Series. He has recently co-edited Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France and Thomas Day's Sandford and Merton; he is currently completing a monograph entitled "Retirement and Disgrace: Women and Gardens in the Eighteenth Century."
Elaine Hobby is Head of the English and Drama Department at Loughborough University, where she has worked very happily since 1988. Her research mostly focuses on early-modern women's writings, especially those in "non-literary" genres. In recent years she has also been working on (mostly male-authored) midwifery manuals from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in 2009 she published an edition of Thomas Raynalde, and others, The Birth of Mankind (1540-1654).
Katharine Hodgkin is Reader in Cultural History at the University of East London. Her publications include Madness in Seventeenth-century Autobiography (Palgrave 2006) and a manuscript edition, Women, Madness and Sin: the autobiographical writings of Dionys Fitzherbert (Ashgate 2010). She has also published articles on dreams, psychoanalysis, and witchcraft, and is co-editor of volumes on dreams and on memory. She is currently working on a project on early modern memory.
Jeffrey Hopes is Professor of English at the University of Orléans in France. He has published both in French and in English on various aspects of eighteenth-century writing, in particular the theater, prose fiction, autobiographies, and issues of eighteenth-century taste and social discourse. He has recently co-edited with Orla Smyth a volume of essays in English [End Page 133] and French on critical discourse on the novel between 1670 and 1850: Discours critique sur le roman 1670-1850 (Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre 2010).
Rab Houston is Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He has published extensively on British and European social history from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, including books and articles on literacy, population, towns, social relationships, and (most recently) the history of psychiatry. His latest book is Punishing the Dead: Suicide, Lordship and Community in Britain, 1500-1830 (Oxford UP 2010). He is a fellow of the Academia Europaea and of the Royal Historical Society.
Richard Terry is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Northumbria University, having previously worked for many years at the University of Sunderland. He has written numerous articles on aspects of eighteenth-century literature, as well as producing major studies on literary historiography, mock-heroic writing, and the allegation of plagiarism during the period. His most recent book is Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century: Before Depression 1660-1800, co-authored with Allan Ingram, Stuart Sim, Clark Lawlor, John Baker, and Leigh Wetherall Dickson (Palgrave Macmillan 2011). [End Page 134]
