Contributors
- Contributors
David Vincent is Professor of Social History and Pro Vice Chancellor at the Open University. His publications include studies of working-class autobiography, literacy, poverty, social mobility, and secrecy. Recent books are The Culture of Secrecy (OUP, 1998), The Rise of Mass Literacy (Polity, 2000), and with Hannah Barker, Language, Print and Electronic Politics (Boydell, 2001).
Anne L. Helmreich is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas Christian University and a specialist in nineteenth-century British art. Her book, The English Garden and National Identity: The Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870–1914, has been recently published by Cambridge University Press.
Emily Allen is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, where she also teaches in the Program for Theory & Cultural Studies. Her first book, Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, was published by Ohio State UP in 2003. The essay for this volume arises from her fascination with the Victorian royals and her abiding love of pastry.
Suzy Anger is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She has published articles on nineteenth-century literature, edited a collection of essays entitled Knowing the Victorians, and is currently completing a book on Victorian hermeneutics.
Bernard Lightman is Professor of Humanities at York University, Toronto. He is author of The Origins of Agnosticism (Johns Hopkins, 1987) and editor of Victorian Science in Context (University of Chicago, 1997). He is also editor of The Biographical Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, to be published by Thoemmes Press in 2004. Currently he is working on a monograph on popularizers of Victorian science. In January, 2004, he will become editor of the journal Isis.
Christopher Herbert is Wender-Lewis Professor of English at Northwestern University. In addition to Victorian Relativity, his books include Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century (1991) and Trollope and Comic Pleasure (1987). He has written recently on Dracula, on Dickens and Mayhew, and on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and he is currently at work on a project centering on the Sepoy War of 1857–58.
Roger Cooter is a Wellcome Professorial Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. The author of The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science (1984) and Surgery and Society in Peace and War (1993), he has also edited volumes on child health, alternative medicine, accidents, war and medicine, and, most recently, Medicine in the Twentieth Century (2000). He is currently researching the visual representation of epidemics, and writing a political history of medical ethics. [End Page 586]
Stephen Arata is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (1996).
Rob Breton is an instructor of English at the University of British Columbia. He completed a PhD at UBC in 2001 and is currently editing his manuscript entitled “Gospels and Grit: Work and Labour in Thomas Carlyle, Joseph Conrad, and George Orwell.” He studies and teaches Victorian prose fiction.
Joseph W. Childers teaches English at the University of California, Riverside. He is currently completing “The Empire Within,” a study of representations of the imperialized other within England during the Victorian period. He is also coeditor, with James Buzard and Eileen Gillooly, of Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace, forthcoming from University of Virginia Press.
Ann Cvetkovich teaches English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (1992) and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (2003).
S. M. den Otter, a graduate of Oxford, has published The British Idealists (Oxford, 1996), a study of late-nineteenth-century social theory. She is currently working on a study of how the experience of governing India shaped debate in mid-nineteenth-century Britain about the nature of the individual, community, and society. Her interests include the intellectual, cultural, gender, and imperial history of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.
Nicholas Daly is a lecturer in the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle: Popular Fiction and British...
