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  • Contributors

Florence S. Boos is the author/editor of several books on Morris, most recently the forthcoming History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris (Ohio State UP). She is the general editor of the William Morris Archive, and her writings on Morris include Socialist Aesthetics and the “Shadows of Amiens” and editions of his Earthly Paradise and Our Country Right or Wrong. She is the editor of Working-Class Women Poets of Victorian Britain: An Anthology and is currently preparing a book on the memoirs of Victorian working class women.

Ewan Jones is a lecturer in nineteenth century literature at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Downing College. His first monograph, Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. He is currently writing a conceptual history of rhythm in the nineteenth century.

Margaret Loose is an associate professor of English literature at the University of California, San Diego and the author of The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice. Her teaching and research interests include Victorian literature and culture; working-class literature; poetry and poetics; Chartism; gender studies; and the novel.

Jennifer MacLure is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on Victorian literature, the history of medicine and public health, theories of economics, and literature’s relationship to social justice. She is currently writing a dissertation entitled “Communities of Contact,” which explores the connection between the development of public health policy and the conceptualization of social and ecomomic community in Victorian novels.

Matthew Margini is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, specializing in Victorian literature and its animal representations. His research interests include pet poetry, aquaria, prehistory, posthumanism, monstrosity, metonymy, and animals both wild and domesticated in the Victorian novel. He is currently working on “Incoherent Beasts,” a dissertation that examines the various ways in which Victorian literature responded to the destabilization of species categories. [End Page 227]

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