Bradley Arthur - Romantic Biography

Jonathan Bate is Leverhulme Research Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of The Cure for Love, a biographical novel about William Hazlitt (Picador, 1998) and a major biography of John Clare, which will be published in 2003 by Picador in the UK and Farrar Starus Giroux in the USA.

Arthur Bradley is Senior Lecturer in English at Chester College of Higher Education. His publications include essays on Shelley, Byron, Joseph de Maistre, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion. He is currently writing a book about Derrida, theology and modern French thought to be published by Routledge.

Joe Bray has taught at the Universities of Luton, Cambridge and Strathclyde, and is now Lecturer in Literary Stylistics at the University of Stirling. He is co-editor of Ma(r)king The Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page (Ashgate, 2000), and has published on Richardson and Austen. He has recently completed a monograph on the representation of consciousness in the epistolary novel.

Gerard Carruthers is Lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow. He has published essays on James Thomson, Robert Burns and other eighteenth century topics, and is co-editor, with Alan Rawes, of English Romanticism and the Celtic World (Cambridge, 2003).

Kenneth R. Johnston is Ruth N. Halls Professor of English at Indiana University (Bloomington), where he recently completed two terms as department chair. He is the author of The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy (Norton, 1998), which won the 1998 Jean Baracelli award of the American Conference on Romanticism, as well as Wordsworth and 'The Recluse' (Yale, 1984). He co-edited and contributed to The Age of William Wordsworth (Rutgers, 1987) and Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory (Indiana, 1990). He is currently studying the effects of the Treason Trials of the 1790s on the origins of the English Romantic movement.

Julian North is Senior Lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Leicester. She is the author of De Quincey Reviewed: Thomas De Quincey 's Critical Reception, 1821-1994 (Camden House, 1997) and has also published on Romantic autobiography and nineteenth-century drug literature. She is currently working on The Domestication of Genius, a book on Romantic biography, and is editing volume 11 of The Works of Thomas De Quincey, 21 vols (Pickering and Chatto, 2000-).

Michael O'Neill is Professor of English at the University of Durham. He has published widely in the fields of Romanticism and twentieth-century poetry. His books include The Human Mind's Imaginings: Conflict and Achievement in Shelley's Poetry (1989) and Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem (1997), both published by Oxford, With Zachary Leader, he is currently completing a co-edited edition of Shelley for the Oxford Authors series.

Ralph Pite is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. He has recently completed Hardy's Geography: Wessex and the Regional Novel (Palgrave, 2002) and is currently working on a biography of Hardy entitled The Guarded Life to be published by Picador.

Alan Rawes has taught at the Universities of Liverpool and Strathclyde, and is now Senior Lecturer in English at Canterbury Christ Church University College. He is the author of Byron's Poetic Experimentation (Ashgate, 2000) and co-editor, with Gerard Carruthers, of English Romanticism and the Celtic World (Cambridge, 2003).

Mark Storey is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Birmingham. His publications include Byron and the Eye of Appetite (Macmillan, 1986), Robert Southey: A Life (Oxford, 1997), The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period (Macmillan, 2000) and, as editor, The Letters of John Clare (Oxford, 1985).

Jennifer Wallace is Director of Studies at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Her recent publications include Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism (Cambridge, 1997), a volume on Keats in the Lives of the Great Romantics series (Pickering and Chatto, 1997), Consuming Passions: Food in the Age of Anxiety (Manchester, 1998), essays on Shelley, Mathew Arnold, Elizabeth Carter and Elizabeth Barratt Browning, and numerous contributions to THES.

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