Contributors
- Contributors
Allan Ingram is Professor of English at Northumbria University. He has published widely in the field of eighteenth-century studies and particularly on literature and madness. His main works include monographs on James Boswell, on Swift and Pope, and on madness and writing, as well as edited collections of source material, Voices of Madness (Sutton 1997) and Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century (Liverpool UP 1998). His most recent book is Cultural Constructions of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Writing (Palgrave 2005, with Michele Faubert). He was Director of the Leverhulme Trust “Before Depression” project. He is co-general editor and volume co-editor for the forthcoming Depression and Melancholy 1660–1800 set (Pickering & Chatto 2012).
Michael O’Neill is a Professor of English at Durham University. His most recent publications include Wheel (Arc 2008), a collection of poems, and, as editor, The Cambridge History of English Poetry (Cambridge UP 2010). With Madeleine Callaghan, he is the editor of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon (Blackwell 2011).
Serge Soupel is Professor Emeritus of English literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. He is the author of an extensive monograph on the English novel, Apparence et essence dans le roman anglais, 1740–1771: l’écriture ambiguë (1983), which owes much to his lasting involvement in semiotics. He co-authored and edited a history of English-language literatures (1995). In addition to numerous essays and reviews, he has published translations and editions in French of Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Stevenson, Thackeray, and Hawthorne. He sits on the editorial board of The Shandean and is currently co-director of Études Anglaises, which he edited for over a decade in the nineteen-eighties and nineties. His ongoing research bears witness to his interest in the English and European novel of the eighteenth century.
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 [End Page 119] in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century: Before Depression 1660–1800, co-authored with Ingram, Sim, Lawlor, Baker, and Wetherall Dickson (Palgrave Macmillan 2011).
Neil Vickers is Reader in English Literature and the Medical Humanities at King’s College London. He has published one book, Coleridge and the Doctors (Oxford 2004) as well as numerous articles on Coleridge and the medical culture of his time. He is currently writing a book on illness and autobiographical memory in contemporary life-writing. His homepage can be found at www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/english/people/acstaff/vickers/.
Peter Wagner is Professor of English and American Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Cultural and Social Studies at the Landau campus of Universität Koblenz-Landau. He has taught at British and American universities and given lectures around the world. His special fields of research and publishing include text-image relations, the graphic art of William Hogarth, eighteenth-century literature, and postmodern American fiction. Among his book publications are A History of British, Irish, and American Literature (WVT, 2nd ed. 2010), a monograph on reading iconotexts (Reaktion Books, 1995), and a study of Enlightenment erotica. He is also the editor of the series Landau-Paris-Studies on the Eighteenth Century.
Nigel Wood is Professor of Literature at Loughborough University. Alongside numerous articles on the eighteenth century, he has written studies of Swift and Gay, and edited a selection from the Journals and Diaries of Frances Burney, and, for Oxford University Press’s World’s Classics, She Stoops to Conquer and other Eighteenth-Century Comedies. He is at present part of a team editing the poetry of Alexander Pope for the Longman Annotated Poets series. [End Page 120]
