Contributors
- Contributors
Jo Briggs (jbriggs@thewalters.org) gained her PhD in the History of Art from Yale University in 2008. She is currently working on a book project provisionally titled Bodies of Evidence: Revolutionary and Exhibitionary Masculinities in Mid Nineteenth-Century British Visual Culture. Formerly a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, she recently became Assistant Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
Bradley Deane (deaneb@morris.umn.edu) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris and the author of The Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market (2003). His current project, tentatively called Better Men, is a book-length study of masculinity and the new imperialism in late Victorian popular literature.
Ruth Livesey (ruth.livesey@rhul.ac.uk) is Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought in the Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Socialism, Sex and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914 (OUP, 2007), co-editor of The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture, 1776-1914 (Ashgate, 2012), and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture.
Caroline Sumpter (c.sumpter@qub.ac.uk) is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Queen's University, Belfast. She is the author of The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and articles on Victorian literature, politics, and science. She is currently working on a book that explores links between literature and debates over moral evolution in the late nineteenth century.
Peter Borsay (nnb@aber.ac.uk) is Professor of History at Aberystwyth University. His books include The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, 1660-1770 (1989), The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000: Towns, Heritage and History (2000), and A History of Leisure (2006). He is currently engaged in researching the history of British urban green space and spas and seaside resorts.
Gavin Budge (g.budge@herts.ac.uk) is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire. Recent publications include Charlotte M Yonge: Religion, Feminism and Realism in the Victorian Novel (2007) and an edited collection of essays, Romantic Empiricism: Poetics and the Philosophy of Common Sense, 1780-1830 (2007). He has recently completed a monograph, Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres 1790-1852, to be published by Palgrave in 2012. [End Page 785]
Martin Daunton (mjd42@cam.ac.uk) is Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge. He has published Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1851 (1995) and Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1851-1951 (2007). He is currently writing on the economic government of the world since the Second World War.
Richard Dellamora (rdellamora@verizon.net) is Professor Emeritus of English and Cultural Studies at Trent University and Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UCLA. He is the author of Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism (1990), Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England (2004), and Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing (2011).
Karen Fang (kfang@uh.edu) is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston. Her recent book, Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs: Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship (2010), shows how early nineteenth-century authors modeled periodical collaboration upon contemporary imperial enterprise. She is currently at work on a book on surveillance in Hong Kong culture.
Pamela K. Gilbert (pgilbert@ufl.edu) is Albert Brick Professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her two most recent books are The Citizen's Body (2007) and Cholera and Nation (2008); she also edited Blackwell's Companion to Sensation Fiction (2011).
Nigel Goose (n.goose@herts.ac.uk) is Professor of Social and Economic History and Director of the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Hertfordshire, England. He has published widely on many aspects of English economy and society from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. His current research focuses on the history of philanthropy, on which he has published A History of Doughty's...
