Gerald Egan (editor) - Fashion and Authorship : Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lund University, Sweden, has also taught at Kristianstad University College, Sweden; the University of Cambridge, UK; Ningbo University, Peoples Republic of China; and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. While she has written on a variety of genres, including detective fiction and childrens literature, her main areas of research have been eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction from the perspective of gender. Her focus is on the significance of dress and the body in the Bront novels. Her publications relevant to this collection include the essay The Bronts, the Corset and the Condition of England (Bront Studies, 2015) and the book chapter Dress inThe Bronts in Context(2012).

is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the connections between the literature of eighteenth-century and Romantic Britain and the visual-cultural and material practices that shaped this literatures new and enduring forms. His research interests include the history and theory of fashion, visual and material cultural studies, problems of historical method in literary studies, and the forms of historiographical writing. His recent work has addressed subjects ranging from the history of the fashion plate to Romantic antiquarianism, and from the fashionable, eighteenth-century portraiture of Sir Joshua Reynolds to the present-day conceptual dress art of Christian Boltanski. His bookHistorical Style(2016) offers a new account of the rise of historicism during the long eighteenth century in Britain, arguing that the historical novel ultimately makes clear the debts the ages wider historiographical energy owed to an emergent fashion system. His essay on fashion and the aesthetic theory of Jacques Rancire recently appeared inCritical Inquiry.

is Professor of English and Director of Graduate Student Policy & Support at Middle Georgia State University, where she teaches British literature and literary theory as well as gender, interdisciplinary, fashion, and performance studies. She has written articles on Oscar Wilde and Victorian discourses of aestheticism and fashion and received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to study at the Wilde Archive at University of California, Los Angeless William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Her most recent publication in the area of fashion studies is a book chapter titled Oscar Wilde, Aesthetic Dress, and Modern Woman: Or Why Sargents Portrait of Ellen Terry Appeared inThe Womans World published in the volumeWilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, Archives, edited by Joseph Bristow (2013).

is Lecturer in History of Design and Material Culture with the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities at De Montfort University, UK. Her Economic and Social Research Council-funded PhD thesis, titled Trained to Consume: Dress and the Female Consumer in Eighteenth-Century Britain, examined the rise of the figure of the female consumer, and how this character was molded by contemporary ideas of gender, skill, and nationhood. She has previously held curatorial posts at the National Portrait Gallery and Leeds Museums. She has published her work inHistory Compassand theJournal of Urban History, and is developing a monograph based on her thesis.

teaches British Romantic and Victorian literature at California State University, Long Beach. His book