Jack Lynch - The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 (Oxford Handbooks)

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Jennifer Batt is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Bristol, and was formerly Postdoctoral Project Coordinator of the Digital Miscellanies Index project (http://digitalmiscellaniesindex.org) at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. She has published on laboring-class poetry and eighteenth-century miscellany culture, and her essay on eighteenth-century lyric verse won the Review of English Studies essay prize in 2010. She is completing a monograph on the iconic laboring-class poet, Stephen Duck.

Richard Bradford is Research Professor of English at Ulster University. He has published twenty-seven books. He recently published Is Shakespeare Any Good? And Other Questions on How We Evaluate Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), along with The Importance of Elsewhere: Philip Larkins Photographs (Frances Lincoln, 2015).

Marshall Brown is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington and editor of Modern Language Quarterly. His books include The Shape of German Romanticism (Cornell Univ. Press, 1979), Preromanticism (Stanford Univ. Press, 1991), Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions (Stanford Univ. Press, 1997), The Gothic Text (Stanford Univ. Press, 2004), The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul: Essays on Music and Poetry (Univ. of Washington Press, 2010), and, as editor, the Romanticism volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000).

Conrad Brunstrm is Lecturer in English at Maynooth University. He has published two monographs on the poetry of and the oratory of Thomas Sheridan (2011). He has also published and presented papers internationally on topics as diverse as religious literature, poetic form, theater history, political rhetoric, and Queer Studies and on authors as varied as Samuel Johnson, James Beattie, Charles Churchill, Matthew Prior, and Frances Burney. He is researching Irish and Canadian nationalisms and the role of speech-making in the formation of a sense of collective political identity.

Tanya Caldwell is Professor of English and Associate Graduate Director at Georgia State University. She has published widely on various topics across the eighteenth century. Her most significant works on the classics in translation include Time to Begin Anew: Drydens Georgics and Aeneis (Bucknell Univ. Press, 2000) and Virgil Made English: The Decline of Classical Authority (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Her most recent work focuses on drama. She has published the anthology Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Broadview, 2011) and is working on a biography of Hannah Cowley.

Lorna Clymer is Professor of English, Emerita, California State University, Bakersfield. She is an independent scholar in Washington, D.C.

Leith Davis, Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University in Greater Vancouver, is author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Negotiation of the British Nation (Stanford Univ. Press, 1998) and Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 17251875 (Notre Dame Univ. Press, 2005), as well as co-editor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004) and Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture (Ashgate, 2012). Her current book project examines the articulation of cultural memory through print culture in the early eighteenth century. She serves as the Director of Simon Fraser Universitys Centre for Scottish Studies.

William Donaldson is author of numerous books on Scottish literature and music, including Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland (Aberdeen Univ. Press, 1986), The Jacobite Song: Political Myth and National Identity (Aberdeen Univ. Press, 1988), and The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society (Tuckwell, 2000). He worked for many years in the Open University, and now teaches in the Literature Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is now engaged in two substantial projects: a history of Scottish song and its links with the wider definition of Scottish culture, and a variorum online edition of ceol mor, the classical music of the Highland bagpipe.

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe lectures in English literature at the University of Cape Town, and holds one of its Distinguished Teacher Awards. He took his MA with distinction at Rhodes University, where he won the Royal Society of St. George Prize for English, and his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the Members English Prize, 1978/79. He has published 11 booksthe most recent being on Thomas Hoodand 400 articles on topics that range from Shakespeare to nineteenth-century ballet and opera.