Contributors
- Contributors
Charley Baker is Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Nottingham. Her recent coauthored books include Madness in Post-1945 British and American Fiction (Palgrave 2010) and Health Humanities (Palgrave 2015). She is Associate Editor for Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. Charley co-founded the Madness and Literature Network and International Health Humanities Network.
Hélène Dachez is Professor of English at the Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (France), where she teaches English literature and translation. She wrote her PhD on Samuel Richardson’s novels. Since then, her research work has focused on eighteenth-century major English novelists. She has recently published a book entitled Le Sang dans le roman anglais du XVIIIe siècle (Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2007) and is interested in the relationship between the eighteenth-century novel and medicine. She has also published several articles on the body and its language, as well as on other aspects of eighteenth-century English literature—among them epistolarity.
Leigh Wetherall-Dickson is Senior Lecturer in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature at Northumbria University. She has participated in two major research projects, both funded by the Leverhulme Trust; Before Depression 1660–1800 (www.beforedepression.com) and Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, 1660–1832 (www.fashionablediseases.info). Her current research focuses upon the relationship between fashion, fame, and illness in the long eighteenth century. Recent publications examine the experience of mental and physical disease, including the four-volume Depression and Melancholy 1660–1800 (Pickering and Chatto 2012), for which she was general and contributing editor.
Allan Ingram is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Northumbria. He has published widely on eighteenth-century topics, including work on James Boswell, on Swift and on Pope, and on aspects of insanity. He was Director of the Leverhulme Research Project, “Before Depression, 1660-1800” (www.beforedepression.com), and is Co-Director of “Fashionable Diseases in the Long Eighteenth Century” (www.fashionablediseases.info). His most recent works include the co-edited [End Page 147] four-volume collection Depression and Melancholy 1660-1800 (Pickering & Chatto 2012) and the Broadview Press edition of Gulliver’s Travels (2012). He was co-editor of the memorial volume for Bill Overton, Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety (Palgrave 2015) and also of a collection of essays arising from the “Fashionable Diseases” project, Disease and Death in Literature and Culture of the Eighteenth Century: Fashioning the Unfashionable (Palgrave 2016). He is co-editor of the English Association journal English. He is currently working on representations of the medical profession in the long eighteenth century.
Jennifer Kain was awarded her studentship-funded History PhD from Northumbria University in December 2015. Her thesis is entitled “Preventing ‘Unsound Minds’ from Populating the British World: Australasian Immigration Control and Mental Illness, 1830s–1920s.” From October 2016 Jennifer will be the Alan Pearsall Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. Her post-doctoral project considers the bureaucratic attempts at preventing dysfunctional seamen from landing in New Zealand and Australia. It continues the research themes addressed in her thesis and this article: the theories, policy, and practice behind excluding the so-called mentally and morally “undesirable” from the Australasian colonies over the long nineteenth century.
Vicky Long is Senior Lecturer in Health History at Glasgow Caledonian University and a co-investigator on the Wellcome Trust funded project, “Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, 1780–1948.” She is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Health Factory: The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914–60 (Palgrave 2011) and Destigmatising Mental Illness? Professional Politics and Public Education in Britain, 1870–1970 (Manchester UP 2014). She has also published contributions to edited books and articles in the journals Medical History, Social History of Medicine, Le Mouvement Social, Journal of British Studies, and Twentieth-Century British History.
Anita O’Connell is Leverhulme Research Fellow on Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, 1660–1832 at Northumbria University, where she is writing a monograph on the fashionability of illnesses in eighteenth-century society. She is co-editor of Volume One: Religious Writings...
