Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era -- Contributors

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Joselyn M. Almeida, NEBHE Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at Simmons College, focuses her writing and research on the transatlantic culture of Great Britain and the Americas. She examines the themes of discovery, empire, and reform in the articles she has had accepted for publication including, "Locating Romanticisms Transatlantic Song," "Romanticism and Non-Fictional Prose in Spanish America, 1880-1850," and has given a number of related scholarly presentations at the NASSR, ACR, and MLA annual conventions. Ms. Almeida is completing her dissertation, "Literary Crossings: Great Britain and the Americas in the Nineteenth Century" at Boston College under the direction of Professor Alan Richardson, a project she plans to revise for publication.

Norman Araujo, Associate Professor of French at Boston College, focuses on nineteenth-century French literature, with an emphasis on the novel. Relevant publications include: "Ferdinand Brunetière," "Théophile Gautier," "Adolphe-Hippolyte Taine," Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism, "Pétrus Borel," Dictionary of Literary Biography, "Prosaic Licence and the Use of the Literary Past in Daudet's 'La Chèvre de M. Seguin," Forum for Modern Language Studies, "The Language of Business and the Business of Language in Becque's Les Corbeaux," French Review, and In Search of Eden: Lamartine's Symbols of Despair and Deliverance.

Monika Baar, doctoral candidate in modern history, Brasenose College, Oxford holds an MA in History and Hungarian (Budapest), an MA in Central European History (CEU, Budapest) and an MA in Slavonic and East European Studies(London). From 2000-2001 she was a Research Fellow, at King's College, London. From fall 2001 she has been a Research Fellow, at the Herder Institut, Marburg. Her research interests include historiography, nationalism, and the history of Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

David Baguley is Professor of French at the University of Durham, England. Recent works include Naturalist Fiction: The Entropic Vision (Cambridge University Press, 1990) Zola: 'L'Assommoir' (Cambridge University Press, 1992--Landmarks of World Literature series) Zola et les genres (University of Glasgow French and German Publications) Le Naturalisme et ses genres (Paris, Nathan, 1995) Emile Zola: 'Germinal' (edited English Translation) (Everyman, 1996) and Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza (Louisiana State University Press, 2000).

Tallis Barker has pursued a dual path as pianist and musicologist. As pianist he has performed throughout England and the U.S.A. as a solo pianist and chamber musician, appearing at Tanglewood and the Aspen Music Festival and recording for the Isis label and WQXR, New York. As musicologist his numerous publications range from research articles in the Music Review to programme notes for Deutsche Grammophon. After finishing magna cum laude at Harvard (1990) he won a Fulbright Scholarship to Oxford and then an Erasmus Scholarship to Vienna, the research of which culminated in a doctorate on Beethoven performance practice (Oxford, 1997). Since 1998 he has lived in Budapest, Hungary, working mainly as a freelance musicologist and translator.

Stuart Barnett is Associate Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. He is the editor of Friedrich Schlegel: On the Study of Greek Poetry (2000), and Hegel After Derrida, (1999). He wrote "Habermas On the Subject of Foucault," in Transitions in Continental Philosophy, (1994) and contributes to German Quarterly and Nineteenth-Century French Studies.

Thomas Barry holds an MA in German language and literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton a PhD in German literature from the University of Virginia, as well as an MS in TESL from the University of Southern California. He has published on German and Austrian literature and on foreign language pedagogy. Dr Barry has taught at several universities in the United States. He is currently Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Himeji Dokkyo University in western Japan.

Gerd Bayer is Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Case Western Reserve University. Recent ublications include: "I'm very fond of tea and Shakespeare: An Interview with Tibor Fischer." And "Novel is character: An Interview with Jane Rogers." In Interviews with Contemporary English Writers. , (1999) and "A sterile promontory: Jane Rogers's and Jenny Diski's Views of the Future" Arachne , (1999).

Bernard Beatty is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Byron's Don Juan (London, 1985) and Byron's Don Juan and other Poems (London 1987). He has written widely on Romantic, Restoration, and Scriptural topics and since 1988 has been Academic Editor of The Byron Journal .

Dr. Nicolas Bell is Curator, Music Collections, at The British Library and co-editor of: Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000-2000.

Lucy Bending is a lecturer in English at the University of Reading.

Dr. Christine Berthin teaches nineteenth century British Literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, France. She has published extensively on the Romantics, in particular on the poetry of Shelley and Keats. She has also published several articles on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein and has co-authored a book: L'Humain et l'Inhumain (1993). She has just completed a book manuscript entitled Haunted Writing, The Melancholy of Gothic Crypts.

Mette Bligaard (b. 1944) is Director of the Danish Cultural Institute in Edinburgh. She was born in Denmark and educated at the Universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen (MA in History of Art), and was a lecturer at the latter before becoming a curator at the Museum of Danish National History at Frederiksborg Castle, serving as its director 1989-1997. She has curated exhibitions both in Denmark and abroad.

E. Douglas Bomberger is Associate Professor, Department of Music, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. He is the editor of Brainard's Biographies of American Musicians (1999). He has contributed to Piano Roles: 300 Years of Life with the Piano, (1999), Women Composers: Music Through the Ages, vol. 6, Composers born 1800-1899: Keyboard Music, (1999), and Opera in Context: Essays on Historical Staging, (1998). He also write for Musical Quarterly, Journal of Musicological Research, Notes, Fontes Artis Musicae, and Journal of the American Liszt Society.

Dr.Penny Bradshaw is Lecturer, Department of English and Drama, at St. Martin's College, Lancaster, England. She is a contributor to Women's Writing, on Anna Barbauld and the Dissenting Enlightenment, and Romanticism on the Net on Anna Barbauld and Charlotte Smith's dystopian futuristic visions.

Ken A. Bugajski, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Texas A&M University, is the author of: 'The Men and Women Merely Players': Performing the Self in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Autobiography. (Dissertation in progress), "Joanna Baillie: An Annotated Bibliography." Romanticism On the Net, November 1998, and "Shakespeare and the Visual Arts: Bibliography (Excluding Film, Video, and Television)," with Saskia Kossak. Shakespeare and the Visual Arts, 2000.

James A. Butler is Professor and Chair, English, and Director of Undergraduate Research at La Salle University, as well as Associate Editor, Cornell Wordsworth Series. He is editor of Romney (An Unfinished Novel) And Other New Works about Philadelphia, The Ruined Cottage And the Pedlar, Lyrical Ballads And Other Poems, 1797-1800, by William Wordsworth. He has written articles on William Wordsworth in Charles Lamb Bulletin, English Language Notes, Huntington Library Quarterly, Janus, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Notes and Queries, Princeton University Library Chronicle, Studies in Philology, Studies in Romanticism, and Wordsworth Circle, an article on Samuel Johnson in Cornell Library Journal, an article on Rolf Hochhuth in Four Quarters, and an article on Lawrence Ferlinghetti in Renanscence.

Dr. Kathleen L. Butler is an independent scholar and contributor to Out of Context: American Artists Abroad, American National Biography, and Annals of Tourism Research (topic, women and travel).

Roger Cardinal is Professor of Literary & Visual Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of German Romantics in Context (1975), Expressionism (1984), The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash (1989) and Henry Moore in the Light of Greece (2000); and has published widely on French Surrealism as well as on Outsider Art and Naive Art. He also wrote Figures of Reality (1981), an essay on the modern poetic imagination.

Dr. Brycchan Carey is a Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University. He has published articles on William Wilberforce and Ignatius Sancho, and is currently completing a book on the rhetoric of the abolition movement in the late eighteenth century.

Stephen Carver is Associate Professor of British and American Literature at Fukui University, Japan. He is the author of The Lancashire Novelist, and short fiction published in Not-Not, Cascando, and Birdsuit. He coauthor ed (with Glyn White and Roger Sales) Mythologising Murder.

Dr. Daniel K. L. Chua is Reader in Music Theory and Analysis, University of London and Lecturer in Music, King's College London. He is the author of: The 'Galitzin' Quartets of Beethoven, and Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning. He contributed the following to edited books: 'Haydn as Romantic', Haydn Studies, and 'Vincenzo Galilei, Modernity and the Division of Nature', Music Theory's Natures. He also wrote "Believing in Beethoven: Adorno's Philosophy of Music," published in Music Analysis.

Elvio Ciferri is professor of Italian literature and history at the Leopoldo and Alice Franchetti Institute, Città di Castello (Italy) He is the author of: Editti e notificazioni di mons. Giovanni Muzi vescovo di Città di Castello (1825-1849) (1989), Luigi Piccardini e il suo tempo, (1993) and Tifernati illustri, 2 volumes (2000-2001), the thid in preparation. He is a contributor to: Ventura di Città di Castello in "Bibliotheca Sanctorum," Appendix II, Pontificia Università Lateranense and Città Nuova Editrice, Roma 200. He wrote "Analecta Augustiniana," "Pagine Altotiberine," "Spoletium," "Studi Montefeltrani," "Nuovi Studi Fanesi," "Italia Francescana," articles on Roman Catholic Church History, Hagiography, History of XIX century, History of Pontifical State.

Dr. Keith E. Clifton is Assistant Professor of Musicology, Department of Music, at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of: American Art Song Since 1980: A Guide, (forthcoming 2003). Other relevant publications include: "Mots cachés: Autobiography in Poulenc and Cocteau's La Voix humaine," Jean Cocteau, Evangelist of the Avant-Garde ed. Tom Gordon, forthcoming 2002; "Madonna's Voices," Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Madonna's Cultural Transformations (1982[-]2002) ed. Santiago Fouz-Hernàndez and Freya Jarman, forthcoming 2003; "Pierre Boulez," Companion to Modern French Thought ed. Chris Murray, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, forthcoming 2003; "Arthur Honegger" and "Francis Poulenc," Reader's Guide to Music History,Theory,Criticism ed. Murray Steib, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999. He is a contributor to the journals: Music Library Association Notes, The Opera Journal, and The Journal of Singing (article concerning Francis Poulenc and Louise de Vilmorin).

Edward Alan Cole is Professor of Russian History, Department of History, at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan. Relevant publications include: The Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol.198: Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol,, "T. N. Granovsky" and N.V. Stankevich" (1998), California Slavic Studies,, "Paris, 1848: A Russian Ideological Spectrum," (1973), and Romantic Russia,, "A History for a Romantic Age," (1997).

Dr. Philip Connell is a Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in English at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is the author of: Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' (2001).

Dr. Ian Copestake, a freelance academic, holds a PhD from the University of Leeds. He is a specialist in twentieth-century American poetry, particularly William Carlos Williams, and a contributor to William Carlos Williams Review, The Literary Review, and Orbis.

Heide Crawford is a Ph.D student at the Pennsylvania State University. She defended her dissertation on the German Horror ballad in May 2001.

Dr. Laura Dabundo is Professor and Chair, Department of English, Kennesaw State University, and editor of Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain from the 1780s to the 1830s (1992) and Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters: Romantic Women's Fiction in Context ( 2000) and contributor to The Wordsworth Circle, Christianity and Literature, and Persuasions with articles on Wordsworth, Austen, and Christianity.

Gregory Dart (1967-) holds a BA and Ph.D from Clare College, Cambridge (1986-89, 1990-93). He was a lecturer in English Literature at the University of York from 1993 to 2000. He is currently Lecturer in English Literature at University College London. Publications include: Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism (1999), and articles on Hazlitt (Romanticism, Cambridge Quarterly) Pierce Egan (History Workshop Journal), and Ford Madox Brown (Victorian Literature and Culture), as well as reviews/articles for the TLS and The Guardian. His current interests include nineteenth century London, periodical literature, Hazlitt, Lamb, Dickens, and Cockneyism.

Frank Day has degrees from Gorham State Teachers College and the University of Tennessee, is a professor of English at Clemson University, published Sir William Empson: An Annotated Bibliography and Arthur Koestler: A Guide to Research, edited 68 volumes in the Twayne's United States Authors Series, and was a Fulbright lecturer in Iasi, Romania (1980-81) and Dhaka, Bangladesh (1986-87).

Guillaume de Syon, associate professor of History at Albright College, teaches modern European history and cultural history. Relevant publications include Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939 (2001); "The Child in the Flying Machine: Inspiration and Hatred in the First World War," in Children and War: A Historical Anthology, James Marten, ed. (2002); "Bangs and Whimpers: The German Public and Two Zeppelin Disasters, 1908-1937," in Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events, Ray B. Browne and Arthur B. Neal, eds. (2001).

Juilee Decker is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University. She is a contributor to Selections from the Krannert Art Museum Collection. Her dissertation is on John Constable and his prints. Her academic interests include British landscape painting and its intersections with travel writing and descriptive travel guides, and public sculpture of the Romantic era.

Alex J. Dick is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is Current Co-Editor of Spheres of Action: The Concept of Performance in the Romantic Period with Angela Esterhammer, and contributor to: "The Law of Contract and The Old Manor House" in Romantic Empiricism, Studies in Romanticism: (article on Wordsworth and Charity) and The Coleridge Bulletin (article on Coleridge and the idea of Labor).

Margaret M. Doyle is Research Historian at the Smithsonian Institution. She is currently also a Ph.D. Candidate in the history of art at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

Alex Drace-Francis (MA, London) is Lecturer in Romanian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Osman Durrani was John Doncaster Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with First Class Honours in German in 1968. He lectured at the University of Durham from 1972 until 1995, when he became Professor of German at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He teaches courses on the Age of Goethe, the Romantic period, contemporary and comparative literature, and humanities computing. Recent publications include a study of images of Germany in the modern novel, Fictions of Germany (1994), an edited volume on The New Germany (1995), and articles on numerous postwar authors. An edited volume on the German historical novel, Travellers in Time and Space, appeared in 2001.

Dr Cliff Eisen is Reader in Historical Musicology, King's College London and author of: The New Grove Mozart. And New Mozart Documents. Contributor to edited books: 'The Mozarts' Salzburg Music Library,' Mozart Studies 2, 'The Salzburg Symphonies: a Biographical Interpretation,' Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Essays on His Life and Work, 'The Mozarts' Salzburg Copyists: Aspects of Attribution, Chronology, Text, Style and Performance Practice,' Mozart Studies,'Sources for Mozart's Life and Works,' The Mozart Compendium. Contributor to Journal: 'Mozart's C minor Fantasy, K475: An Editorial "Problem" and its Analytical and Critical Consequences,' Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 'Another look at the 'corrupt passage' in Mozart's G-minor symphony K550: its sources, 'solution' and implications for the composition of the final triology,' Early Music, and Mozart e l'Italia: il Ruolo di Salisburgo,' Rivista Italiana di Musicologica.

Clara Estow is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She is the author of Pedro the Cruel of Castile (1995) and numerous articles on Castilian society and history in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Her work also explores the results of the first century of contact between Europe and the New World.

Frank Ferguson is conducting doctoral research on the literary career of Thomas Percy at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also a teaching assistant.

Dr. Paul Fisher is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College and the author of: Artful Itineraries: European Art and American Careers in High Culture.

K.E. Fleming is Assistant Professor of History, Middle Eastern Studies, and Hellenic Studies at New York University and author of: The Muslim Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece. She is a contributor to: American Historical Review, New Perspectives on Turkey, Macedonian Studies, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, and Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies.

Luminita Florea has a Ph.D. in Musicology from Indiana University School of Music at Bloomington. She has served for many years as a professor of music history, music theory, and piano in her native Cluj-Napoca (Romania), and as a professor of Music History and Musicology with Eastern Illinois University. She is currently working for a collection of rare books and manuscripts at the University of California at Berkeley and preparing the catalogue raisonné of the more than two hundred manuscripts, mostly medieval, now in the collection. She is a two-time recipient of U. S. National Endowment for Humanities summer research awards for university teachers, and a past American Fellow of the American Association of University Women. Her publications include articles on English medieval music theorists for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan, 2000); essays on medieval modes, the Renaissance composer Luca Marenzio, and W. A. Mozart's keyboard works for A Reader's Guide To Music: History, Theory, and Criticism (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999); and an article on the Hungarian composer György Ligeti in Tempo (London, 1992). She is a writer for Zooba.com, an internet company providing knowledge-based cultural content. For Zooba she has written essays on Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro; on flamenco; on Gypsy music of the Balkans; and on Béla Bartók as a collector of folksong. She is currently at work on a critical edition and English translation of the 14th-century music theory treatise Quatuor principalia musice and, in collaboration with Matthew Balensuela, on "Visualizing Sound: Towards a Catalog of Illustrations in Medieval and Renaissance Theory Treatises."

Deborah Forbes is a doctoral candidate in English literature at Harvard University. She is currently writing a dissertation with the working title Sincerity's Failures: Patterns of Self-Consciousness in British Romantic and Modern American Poetry.

Michael Franklin is a Research Fellow at University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of 'Sir William Jones: A Critical Biography' (1995),and has edited 'Sir William Jones: Selected Poetical and Prose Works' (1995), and 'Representing India: Indian Culture and Imperial Control in Eighteenth-Century British Orientalist Discourse'(2000). He has published articles on Romantic Orientalism, Byron, Oriental Gothic, and medieval love lyrics; among other projects he is working on the Warren Hastings circle.

Camilla Fraser, (1977-), studied at Edinburgh University and for a year at Göteborgs Universitet in Sweden. She graduated in 1999 with an MA (Hons) in Scandinavian studies. She has recently completed an MSc by research in Swedish children's literature with the title, 'Innovation in Swedish children's literature published in 1945: A study of the four texts accredited with innitiating the second golden age of Swedish children's literature.' She is currently working as an assistant tutor in the Scandinavian studies department at Edinburgh University, teaching Swedish literature and Norwegian children's literature.

Dr. Denise P. Gallo is Assistant Professor of Music History, The Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Publications include: Chapter on "Falstaff" in Verdi's Libretti from Source to Stage, "The Correspondence of Pietro Metastasio and Maria Rosa Coccia" and "The Kerver Missale Romanum of 1574," essays in The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: "Music History from Primary Sources"; A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives, Entries on "Patronage," "Motown," and "Barbershop/Beautyshop Quartets," Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, "Carmelita and Don Diego: A Case of Recycling." Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi di Giovanni Pacini,, and Essays on "Vincenzo Bellini," "Gaetano Donizetti," "18th-Century Italian Opera," "19th-Century Italian Opera," and "Jazz: Dixieland" for Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory and Criticism.

Wayne Glausser (Ph.D., Yale University) is currently Professor of English at DePauw University. He is the author of Locke and Blake: A Conversation Across the Eighteenth Century (1998) and several essays on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English literature and philosophy, as well as essays in contemporary American literature and popular culture.

Christopher Goulding is an author and journalist based in Newcastle upon Tyne, where his postgraduate research covers the influence of science and philosophy on the work of Percy Shelley. In 1999 he discovered unpublished letters by Percy Shelley and Lord Byron's family. For further details, see his website at: www.christopher-goulding.com

Dr. J.P. Greene is Associate Professor of French in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, University of Louisville, Kentucky. Publications include:"Eighteenth-century research/Recherche dix-huitiémiste" published by Champion (Paris). Article entitled "Du fouet à la plume: Coaches and Coachmen in Caylus' Histoire de Guillaume, cocher," scheduled to appear in a collection of essays on images of everyday urban life. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 371 (1999): 175-188. Article entitled "Ursule's Road to Ruin: Carriages in Rétif de la Bretonne's La Paysanne pervertie," Neophilologus 83 (1999): 197-208. Article entitled "Cosmetics and Conflicting Fictions in Balzac's César Birotteau," Dalhousie French Studies 39-40 (1997): 59-68. Article entitled "Décor and Decorum in Vivant Denon's Point de lendemain," French Review 68 (1995): 13-23. Article entitled "Balzac's Most Helpless Heroine: The Art Collection in Le Cousin Pons," and Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 319 (1994): 341-56. Article entitled "Objects and their Functions in Rétif de la Bretonne's Les Nuits de Paris".

Daniel Greineder is a doctoral student in German Literature in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford University and a member of Magdalen College. He holds a BA and an MSt from Oxford. His thesis deals with the discourse of mythology in late eighteenth-century aesthetics.

Wendelin Ann Guentner is a Professor at the University of Iowa, and author of: Stendhal et son lecteur. Essai sur les 'Promenades dans Rome' (1990) and Esquisses littéraires. Rhétorique du spontané et récit de voyage au XIXe siècle (1997). She contributed to Du romantisme au Surréalisme. Status et enjeux du récit poétique (1998) and Women Seeking Expression: 1789-1914 (2000). She has also contributed articles to the journals Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France, Romantisme, Romantic Review, Romanische Forschungen, Australian Journal of French Studies, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century, Stendhal Club, Rivista di Letterature moderne e comparate, French Literary Studies, Contemporary French Civilization, Neophilologus, Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte, Art Journal and Stanford French Review, among others.

Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan Santiago teaches American and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Valladolid. He has published extensively on American short fiction. His field of research is American short stories, and African and Indian literary essays. He is also concerned with the cultural and literary relations between American and Spain, and between postcolonial authors writing in English and Spanish. His most recent publications are Presencia de Edgar Allan Poe en la literatura española del siglo XIX (1999) and the co-edition of Cuentos insólitos (2000). He has presented papers on American short fiction, the influence of Edgar A. Poe in Jorge Luis Borges's and Julio Cortázar's writings, T.S. Eliot's and José Ángel Valente's poetry, Robert Lowell's and Jaime Gil de Biedma's poetry, Salman Rushdie and Juan Goytisolo's poetics in national and international conferences.

Bonnie J. Gunzenhauser is an Assistant Professor of English at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. She has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Life Writing (2001) and to the Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (2001), and has also published book reviews in the Keats-Shelley Journal.

Li Sui Gwee is a Senior Tutor with the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is currently a doctoral student at Queen Mary College, University of London. He has written articles on eighteenth-century science, Romanticism, Reformation and modern theology, modern German literature, Nazism and critical theory. Also a poet, artist and reviewer, his published creative works include the graphic novel Myth of the Stone (1993) and Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems? 1998).

M.A.R. Habib is Associate Professor, English Department, Rutgers University and the author of The Dissident Voice: Poems of N.M. Rashed, Translated from the Urdu, and The Early T.S. Eliot and Western Philosophy. He contributes to the Journal of the History of Ideas and numerous other journals and books.

Martin Halliwell is Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Leicester, England. He has published articles on modern American and European literature, intellectual history and literary adaptations. He is the author of Romantic Science and the Experience of Self , Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction and Romantic Science and the Experience of Self: Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks.

Nicholas Halmi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. BA, Cornell University; MA and PhD, University of Toronto. Articles on Enlightenment and Romantic topics in Comparative Literature, European Romantic Review, The Wordsworth Circle, Romanticism on the Net, and the psychology journal Dreaming. Co-editor of Coleridges Opus Maximum) and Coleridge's Poetry and Prose. Currently writing a book on the Romantic concept of the symbol and co-editing a collection of essays on opera and nineteenth-century literature.

Anthony John Harding is Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. With Lisa Low (Pace University), he co-edited Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 1994). He is author of three books, most recently The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism (University of Missouri Press, 1995). He has published in Studies in Philology, Studies in Romanticism, Keats-Shelley Journal, Victorian Studies, and several other journals, serves on the editorial boards of European Romantic Review and Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, and is editing volume 5 of The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge for Princeton Unievrsity Press.

David Boyd Haycock read Modern History'at St John's College, Oxford, and has an MA in Art History from the University of Sussex, England. His PhD, from the University of London, was written on the eighteenth-century antiquary William Stukeley. He is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship at De Montfort University. His publications include The Curious Itinerary of Dr Stukeley : Science, Archaeology, and Religion in Eighteenth-century England.

Dr. David Hill is Senior Lecturer, Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham, England. He is the author of Klinger's Novels. The structure of the Cycle, editor of Debatte. Review of Contemporary German Affairs (twice annually since 1991), G. E. Lessing, Nathan der Weise, J. M. R. Lenz. Studien zum Gesamtwerk, and J. M. R. Lenz, Prince Tandi of Cumba. Other publications include: "Stolz und Demut, Illusion und Mitleid bei Lenz," J. R. M. Lenz als Alternative? Positionsanalysen zum 200. Todestag, "Die Arbeiten von Lenz zu den Soldatenehen: ein Bericht über die Krakauer Handschriften," "Unaufhörlich Lenz gelesen ..." Studien zu Leben und Werk von J. M. R. Lenz, "The theme of religion and humanity in the early fiction," The Narrative Fiction of Heinrich Böll, "'Lettre d'un soldat Alsacien a S Excellence Mr le Comte de St Germain sur la retenue de la paye des Invalides.' An unpublished manuscript by J. M. R. Lenz," Order from Confusion. Essays Presented to Edward McInnes, "'- und macht mir die Erde zum Himmel': Utopisches in der Lyrik von J. M. R. Lenz," Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, "'An diesem Brunnen hast auch du gespielt': Notes on Klinger and his Relationship to Goethe," Goethe Yearbook, "'Das Politische' in Die Soldaten," Orbis Litterarum, "Lessing: die Sprache der Toleranz," Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, "J. M. R. Lenz' "Avantpropos" zu den "Soldatenehen"," Lenz-Jahrbuch, and "Johann Karl Wezel and the Art of Illusion," Publications of the English Goethe Society.

Dr. Hans-Joachim Hahn is head of the German Department at Oxford Brookes University, England. Relevant publications include: German Thought and Culture. From the Holy Roman Empire to the Present Day, 1848/49: The German Revolutions, `G.H. Schubert's principle of untimely development: aspects of Schubert's Ansichten von den Nachtseiten der Naturwissenschaften and its Reverbations in Romantic Literature' in German Life and Letters `Venus Versus Virgin, an Examination of the "Literaturstreit" between Classicism and Romanticism in Germany', in Oxford German Studies, `and From Image to Vision, from Artist to Prophet: Observations on the Perception of Art and Religion in the Work of Eichendorff', in Image into Text, Text into Image, Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Bicentenary Conference held at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.

Terence Allan Hoagwood is Professor of English and Coordinator of Film Studies, Department of English, Texas A&M University. Author of books: Prophecy and the Philosophy of Mind: Traditions of Blake and Shelley, 1985; Skepticism and Ideology: Shelley's Political Prose and Its Philosophical Context from Bacon to Marx, 1988; Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of Culture, 1993; Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts, 1996. Editor of books: Mary Hays, The Victim of Prejudice, 1990; Elizabeth Smith, The Brethren: A Poem in Four Books, 1991; Charlotte Smith, "Beachy Head" and Other Poems, 1993; Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon, 1999 (co-editor Rebecca Jackson); and British Romantic Drama (co-editor Daniel P. Watkins), 1999. Contributor to edited books: "Fictions and Freedom: Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romanticism" in New Historical Literary Study: Essays on Reproducing Texts, Representing History, ed. Jeffrey Cox and Larry Reynolds, 1993; "Keats, Fictionality, and Finance." In Keats and History, ed. Nicholas Roe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pr"Literary Art and Political Justice: Shelley, Godwin, and Mary Hays," in Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World, ed. Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, 1996. "Keats and the Critical Tradition: The Topic of History,"in The Persistence of Poetry: Bicentennial Essays on Keats, ed. Robert M. Ryan and Ronald A. Sharp, 1998, "Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie, and Revolutionary Representation in the 'Romantic' Period," in Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, ed. Adriana Craciun and Kari Lokke, 2001. Contributor to journals: Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly (on Blake's The Four Zoas), Studies in the Literary Imagination (on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins), The Wordsworth Circle (on the art of James Gillray), Nineteenth-Century Contexts (on the poetry of Wordsworth), and SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (on the poetry of Keats).

Rowland Hughes teaches English and American Literature at University College, London and the University of Hertfordshire. BA, Magdalen College, Oxford; MA and PhD, University College, London. Currently converting doctoral thesis on early American frontier literature into a book. Wrote the biographical entry on James Fenimore Cooper for Chadwyck Healey's Lterature Online. Research interests include crime fiction and cinema; published article on Alfred Hitchcock in The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film (2002). Further articles forthcoming on early American fiction.

Dr. Tim Hurley teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His work concentrates in areas of Political Philosophy including modern liberalism and conservatism. His published work includes articles on John Rawls, John Adams, and Leon Jaworski.

John Irving is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Bristol. His publications include two books on Mozart's piano sonatas and string quartets and contributions to a forthcoming Oxford University Press 'Composer Companion' to Mozart.

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Dr. Adeline Johns-Putra is Lecturer, Department of English, University of Tampere, Finland. She is the author of Heroes and Housewives: Women's Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (1770-1830) . She contributes to the journals Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism (article on biblical epics by Romantic women poets) and Romanticism on the Net (article on mock epics by Romantic women poets).

Christer Jorgensen took his PhD.at University College London and passed his examination in March 1999. His topic was the Anglo-Swedish Alliance against Napoleonic France, 1805-1809. Jorgensen's special topic of interest has remained the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Age (1789-1815). He has lectured on various topics of this period at UCL, Sandringham, Luton and Southampton Universities. After a couple of semester of teaching at University of East Anglia (UEA) Jorgensen is now a Lecturer in History at the University College Stockholm (Södertörn) and taking part in a Research Project on the Constitutional History of the EU at the City University in Stockholm.

Professor Malcolm Kelsall. Professor of English at Cardiff University since 1975; author of Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism, The Great Good Place: The Country House and English Literature, Byron's Politics, Christopher Marlowe, Congreve, editor William Congreve, Love for Love, J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved, Sarah Fielding, and The Adventures of David Simple, 1969.

Dr Christine Kenyon-Jones teaches in the English Department at King's College London. She is the author of 'Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic Writing' (London: Ashgate, 2001) and her other published work includes articles and chapters on Byron's portraits; on Byron, Keats and food; on Byron's biographers and the subject of his lameness; on the Romantics and science fiction; on Wordsworth and ecology, and on the early nineteenth-century parliamentary debates on animal rights.

David Kirby is Professor Modern History in the School of Slavonic Studies at University College London (UK). Recent books include The Baltic and North Seas (with Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen, Routledge, 2000) and The Baltic World, 1772-1993 (London, 1995).

Astrid Köhler (1965-) studied German literature and language in Jena and Berlin. She has been a Lecturer in German at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, since 1995. Publications include: Salonkultur im klassischen Weimar. Geselligkeit als Lebensform und literarisches Konzept, "Redouten und Maskenzüge im klassischen Weimar: Variationen zum Thema Chaos und Ordnung" In: Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur "Welt und Weimar: Geselligkeitskonzeptionen im Salon der Johanna Schopenhauer (1806 - 1828) in Europa - ein Salon? Beiträge zur Internationalität des literarischen Salons. "Weimar, 'London und Paris': The Provincial Cultural Elite views the Big Wide World." in The Publications of the English Goethe Society.

Marie Lathers is Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Humanities and French, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Case Western Reserve University. Author of: Bodies of Art: French Literary Realism and the Artist's Model (2001); The Aesthetics of Artifice: Villiers's 'L'Eve future' (1996). Contributor to: "Models in 19th-Century French Literature" and ""Ethnicity and the Model: Changing Tastes" (Dictionary of Artists' Models, ed. Jill Jiminez, 2002); "The Decadent Goddess: L'Eve future and the Venus de Milo" (Jeering Dreamers: 'L'Eve future' at our Fin de Siècle, ed. John Anzalone, 1996); "Fin-de-Siècle Eves in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Angela Carter" (Literature and the Bible, ed. David Bevan, 1993), Woman's Art Journal (Jewish models); L'Esprit Créateur (modeling in Zola's L'Oeuvre); The French Review (Raphael, Balzac and the model); Mosaic (female models in France); Romanic Review (Villiers's L'Eve future); The Centennial Review (film Mr. and Mrs. Bridge); Symposium (modeling in Balzac's Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu); Australian Journal of French Studies (photography in Villiers's L'Eve future)

Simon Lee (b.1956) is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Reading. He is author of David (Phaidon, Art & Ideas,1999), editor of Puvis de Chavannes (Ashgate, 1997) as well as articles in the Burlington Magazine, Apollo and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. He is currently working on a monograph on Delacroix and co-editing an English edition of Goya's Correspondence.

Laure G. Leighton (Ph.D, University of Wisconsin at Madison) is Professor Emeritus of Russian, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of numerous articles on Russian Romanticism and Alexander Pushkin. His book-length studies are: Russian Romanticism: Two Essays, 1975; Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, 1975; Russian Romantic Criticism. An Anthology, 1987; and The Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature: Decembrism and Freemasonry, 1994. He is past editor of the Slavic and East European Journal. He is currently completing a study of Russian Romantic lyric poetry.

Kathryn L. Shanks Libin teaches music history and theory at Vassar College. Her specialties include music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, early keyboard instruments, and intersections between music and literature in early Romanticism. She earned a Ph.D. in musicology from New York University and a B.M. in performance from Oberlin. Ms. Libin has lectured and published on Mozart's concertos and their autographs, music and instruments in Jane Austen's novels, and Goethe's Faust in music; her recent articles and reviews have appeared in The Mozart Society Newsletter, the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, The Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism, and Persuasions. She writes the program notes for concerts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and her notes also appear regularly in Stagebill for Mostly Mozart and Great Performers at Lincoln Center. She is Vice President of the American Musical Instrument Society and serves on the editorial boards of the AMIS Journal and Early Keyboard Journal, as well as the board of the Mozart Society of America. Ms. Libin is currently writing a book entitled Mozart's Keyboard Concertos: Expression, Idiom, and Style.

Ed Lilley is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art Department at the University of Bristol. His research interests are in French art and art criticism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and he has published articles in a variety of academic journals.

Richard Littlejohns is Professor of Modern Languages, University of Leicester, England. Author of: Wackenroder-Studien, 1987, The Linguist at Work: a German Text and its European Context, 1993. Editor of: Wackenroder, Sämtliche Werke und Briefe, vol. 2, 1991. Contributor to: German Writers in the Age of Goethe, ed. James Hardin and Christoph E. Schweitzer, 1989: chapter on Joseph Görres Die deutsche literarische Romantik und die Wissenschaften, ed. Nicholas Saul, 1991: chapter on "Die frühromantische Kunstauffassung und die wissenschaftliche Kunstgeschichte" Romantik und Renaissance, ed. Silvio Vietta, 1994: chapter entitled "Der Rutsch in die Fiktion. Die Darstellung der Renaissancekünstler in Tiecks Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen" Romantic Dreams, ed. Sheila Dickson and Mark Ward, 1998: chapter entitled "Romantic Eschatology: Novalis and Dreams" Schwellen. Erkundungen einer Metapher, ed. Frank Möbus, Nicholas Saul and Daniel Steuer: chapter entitled "Crossing a Threshold: the Example of German Romanticism". Contributor to: Modern Language Review (Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde) Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie (Tieck and Wackenroder, Romantic theme of "Unselige Geschäftigkeit") Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen (Tieck, Goethe's Faust) German Life and Letters (Literary Museums in Dresden, Eichendorff) Forum for Modern Language Studies (Wackenroder) The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies (German Studies - the Romantic Era) Jahrbuch der Eichendorff-Gesellschaft (Romantic cult of religious art, Tieck's letter collection, Eichendorff's poem "Sehnsucht") Euphorion (Tieck) Modern Languages (Goethe's Römische Elegien, Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues) Neophilogus (Goethe and Schiller), Publications of the English Goethe Society (Johann Karl Wezel), and Athenäum (Wackenroder).

Ian Machin has been Professor of British History at the University of Dundee since 1989, and has taught modern British history (from 1760) at that University for 35 years. He has also taught at the Universities of Oxford and Singapore, and was formerly tutor in an Open University course on "The Age of Revolutions, 1775-1848". His books include original studies of Church, State and society in Britain in the years from 1820 to the present, a short life of Disraeli, and an account of the rise of democracy in Britain, 1830-1918.

Christopher MacLachlan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English of the University of St Andrews. He has published articles on a number of British writers, including Robert Burns and David Hume, and edited Matthew Lewis's Gothic novel The Monk for Penguin Classics.

Alison Martin graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with a BA in Modern Languages (German, Dutch, French). She then completed an MA in Modern Dutch Studies at University College London. Following a year as an Assistant Lecturer in English and German at the Limburgs Universitair Centrum in Diepenbeek, Belgium, she returned to Christ's College, Cambridge. She is a graduate student in the German Department , undertaking PhD research into late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German travel accounts of Britain and the Netherlands. She is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Other Languages (Dutch Section).

Tilar Mazzeo is an Assistant Professor of English at Oregon State University specializing in British Romanticism and in travel writing.

Dr. Emma McEvoy works as visiting tutor at Goldsmiths College and the University of Westminster. She published the introduction and notes to Matthew Lewis' The Monk (OUP 1995) and is currently writing a volume entitled Beginning Gothic with Catherine Spooner for MUP.

Dr. Janette McLeman-Carnie is a committee member of Le Bulletin de l'Association des amis d'Alfred de Vigny Degrees held: New York University (PhD, 1994), University of British Columbia (BA Hons and MA). Author of: 'Monologue: A Dramatic Strategy in Alfred de Vigny's Rhetoric'. Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 26. Spring/Summer 1998, 'Alfred de Vigny à Abbotsford: un bijou dans la brume d'Écosse'. Le Bulletin de l'association des amis d'Alfred de Vigny (BAAAV). Paris, vol. 29, March 2000, 'Sir Walter Scott and the French Press: Paris 1826'. Scottish Traditions, Canadian Association for Scottish Studies, Canada, February 2001, vol. 25, 'Quelques Remarques sur le corps narrant dans le discours dramatique d'Alfred de Vigny'. BAAAV , vol. 31, March 2002, and 'Le Poète à la charrue: drame à faire, drame à abandonner'. BAAAV, no. 32, March 2003.

Peter McPhee is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne and author of: Collioure et la Révolution française, 1789-1815, Perpignan, le Publicateur, 1989, A Social History of France, 1780-1880, London and New York, Routledge, 1992, The Politics of Rural Life: Political Mobilization in the French Countryside 1846-1852, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, Les Semailles de la République dans les Pyrénées-Orientales, 1846-1852: classes sociales, culture et politique, Perpignan, L'Olivier, 1995, and Revolution and Environment in Southern France: Peasant, Lords, and Murder in the Corbières, 1780-1830, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1999.

Robert Mitchell is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. His dissertation traces the development of notions of identification and sympathy in the Romantic Era. He is also working on a project that investigates intersections of political and scientific knowledge in this period.

Dr. Robert Morrison is Associate Professor, Department of English, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Editor of The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Volume Seven (2000) and Volume Eight (2001), and Richard Woodhouse's Cause Book: the Opium-Eater, the Magazine Wars, and the London Literary Scene in 1821 (1998). Co-editor, with Chris Baldick, of The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (1997) and Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine (1995). Contributed chapter on the 'Essayists of the Romantic Period: De Quincey, Hazlitt, Hunt, and Lamb' to Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide, ed. Michael O'Neill (1998). Contributed articles on Thomas De Quincey, the Shelley circle, Thomas Carlyle, John Wilson, and Blackwood's Magazine to The Wordsworth Circle, Romanticism, Romanticism on the Net, Carlyle Studies Annual, and Victorian Periodicals Review.

James Naughton was born in 1950 in Edinburgh, in Scotland. He studied Czech and Russian at Cambridge University, gaining his doctorate there in 1978. He presently teaches Czech and Slovak language and literature at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow by Special Election of St. Edmund Hall. Author of the beginners' textbooks Colloquial Czech and Colloquial Slovak, he has also published various translations, including Miroslav Holub's mini-essays "The Jingle-Bell Principle," Bohumil Hrabal's novels Cutting It Short and The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, as well as Total Fears, a selection from Hrabal's letters to Dubenka.

Marianne Noble received her PhD in English from Columbia University in 1993. She is an Associate Professor of literature at American University in Washington DC, where she teaches nineteenth-century American Literature. Her book, The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature, with chapters on Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson, came out from Princeton UP in 2000.

Dr. Peter Otto is Associate Professor and Reader, English Department, University of Melbourne, Australia. Author of: Blake's Critique of Transcendence: Love, Jealousy and the Sublime in "The Four Zoas" (2000); Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction: Los, Eternity and the Productions of Time in the Later Poetry of William Blake (1991). Editor of: Gothic Fictions: A Microfilm Collection of Primary Texts: Part 1: Matthew Lewis and Gothic Horror; Part 2: Anne Radcliffe and her Imitators ; Part 3: Domestic and Sentimental Gothic ; Part 4: Gothic History, Satire and Chapbooks (2002), with Alison Milbank and Marie Mulvey-Roberts ; Imagining Romanticism: Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms, with Deirdre Coleman (1992); Symposium on Romanticism, with Deirdre Coleman (1990). Contributor to: "Literary Theory," An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832, edited by Iain McCalman (1999); "Re-framing the Moment of Creation: Blake's Re-visions of the Frontispiece and Title-age to Europe," Blake and History, edited by Jackie DiSalvo, G.A. Rosso and Christopher Z. Hobson (1998); "Forgetting Colonialism," Contemporary Criticism Yearbook (1995); "Kendall's Sublime Melancholy," Henry Kendall: The Muse of Australia, edited by Russell McDougall (1992). Contributor to: Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Blake's The Four Zoas; Colby Library Quarterly, Blake's The Four Zoas; Mattoid, Blake and the sublime; Meanjin, David Malouf and colonialism; Philological Quarterly, Blake's Milton and The Book of Urizen; Romanticism on the Net: James Graham's Temple of Health; Southern Review, Raymond Williams; Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900, narrative strategies in Blake's The Four Zoas.

Lisa Paddock is a freelance writer living in Cape May County, New Jersey. She is the author of Facts About the Supreme Court of the United States (H.W. Wilson, 1996) and co-editor of the 3-volume set, Courtroom Drama (U*X*L, 1998). Her latest publication is Susan Sontag:The Making of an Icon (Norton, 2000), co-authored with Carl Rollyson. Also with Carl Rollyson, she is the co-author of Herman Melville A TO Z and The Brontes A TO Z (forthcoming from Facts on File). In addition, she is the author of Volume II (the 19th-century) of The Facts on File Encyclopedia of American Literature.

Brigida Pastor, Lecturer. Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Glasgow. Author of many articles on Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and nineteenth-century Cuban culture and gender issues published in Romance Quarterly, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Journal of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies, Lenguaje y Textos, Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, etc. and in collections of essays. Her book The Evolution of the Feminist Ideas in the Prose Writings of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda has been accepted for publication (Peter Lang). She has also published various articles on Cuban film and is currently working on a project on Cuban and Spanish film.

David Patterson is Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, England. He is the author of: Abraham Mapu, East & West Library, London, 1964, republished by Cornell University Press, 1968, A Phoenix in Fetters: Studies in Hebrew Fiction in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Rowman & Littlefield, USA, 1990, The Hebrew Novel in Czarist Russia: A Portrait of Jewish Life in the Nineteenth Century second revised edition, Rowman & Littlefield, Boulder and Oxford., 1999. He is the editor of Tradition and Trauma: Studies in Fiction of SJ Agnon (with Glenda Abramson), Westview Press, 1994. He contributes to the journals Moznayim Journal of Jewish Studies, The Jewish Quarterly, and the Journal of Semitic Studies.

Dr. Melissa Percival is Lecturer, Department of French, University of Exeter, England. Author of: The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France (1999). Contributor to: 'L'Anecdote dans la critique d'art: l'exemple des Mémoires secrets', in Anecdotes, faits-divers, contes, nouvelles 1700-1820, ed. by Malcolm Cook and Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval (2000) 'Greuze's Heads and the Dissolution of the Genres', in Corporeal Practices: (Re)figuring the Body in French Studies, ed. by Julia Prest and Hannah Thompson (2000),and Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century [the actor's face], [the expressive head] Gazette des beaux-arts [Vigée Le Brun's expressive heads]. Regular book reviewer for Modern Language Review, The Art Newspaper, French Studies

Pamela Pilbeam is professor of French history at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her latest book is French Socialists before Marx. Workers, Women and the Social Question in France, Acumen, 2000. Her other publications include The Constitutional Monarchy in France 1815-48, Pearsons, Seminar Studies, 1999; Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France 1814-71, Macmillan European Studies Series,1995; Themes in Modern European History 1780-1830, Routledge, 1995; The 1830 Revolution in France, Macmillan, 1991; paper 1994. The Middle Classes in Europe 1789-1914; France, Russia, Italy and Germany, Macmillan, 1990, The Fame of Illusion. Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks, 2001.

Johann Pillai received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1987), and his M.A. (1989) and Ph.D. (1991) in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, and Editor of JCS-The Journal of Cyprus Studies, at Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, where he chaired the Departments of English Language and Literature, and Literature and Humanities, during 1993-1996. His research interests are in critical theories as they relate to historiography, translation, and legal hermeneutics; he is the author of articles on various subjects, including Edgar Allen Poe, Antonin Artaud, liberal arts education, and the politics of Cyprus; and he is currently completing a book on Schlegelian romantic irony in relation to irrationalism, the supernatural, and contemporary critical theories.

Lynne Press is Head of Italian Studies, School of Languages and Arts, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland. Co-author of : Women and feminine images in Giacomo Leopardi, 1798-1837, Bicentenary Essays, 1999 (with Williams, Pamela). Editor of : Piero Bigongiari e la parola spezzata. Volume of two lectures and poetry, presented to Bigongiari on his 80th birthday, edited, introduced and translations by L. Press. 1994. Contributor to : Giacomo Leopardi nel Mondo. Proceedings of Eighth International Leopardi Conference (Recanati, October 1991), Recanati, 1995. "Infinito e naufragio: sostrati leopardiani all'Allegria di Ungaretti," Dante and His Literary Precursors, ed. J.C. Barnes and J. Petrie (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2000), "Modes of metamorphosis in Dante: the case of Inferno XIII," Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London , volume 5 , 1997, "Leopardi's Tasso: an elective affinity ".

Paolo Rambelli is an honorary research affiliate, Italian department, University College London, England, and a contributor to: "Moderna" (Svevo's novels), "Annali di Italianistica" and "Lingua e Stile" (reviews).

Alexander Rehding is Costen Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. Recent books includeHugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (Cambridge UP, 2003), and Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century (co-edited with Suzannah Clark, Cambridge UP 2001). Recent articles include "Liszt's Musical Monuments," Nineteenth Century Music 26/1 (2002), 52-72., "Eco-Musicology," Journal of the Royal Musical Association 127/2 (2002), pp. 332-47, "Trial Scenes at Nuremberg," Music Analysis 20/2 (2001), 239-267. "The Quest for the Origins of Music circa 1900," Journal of the American Musicological Society 53/2 (2000), 345-385, "Liszt und die Suche nach dem TrisZtan-Akkord," Acta Musicologica 72/2 (2000), 169-188., and "Towards a 'Logic of Discontinuity' in Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments: Kramer, Hasty and Straus Reconsidered," Music Analysis 17/1 (1998), 32-61.

Cameron Reid is a doctoral student in the English department at the University of Waterloo (Canada).

Johann JK Reusch, Ph.D, is Assistant Professor, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, at the City University of New York, Baruch College. Publications: "Exotic Islands and the Stranded Traveler in the Works of Caspar David Friedrich: A Hermeneutic Reading." Studies in Romanticism, Boston University, 22 double-spaced pages (forthcoming), "Child Advocacy, Educational Reforms, and the Depiction of Children in the Works of Philipp Otto Runge." German Life and Letters, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 23 double-spaced pages (forthcoming)., "Jan Miense Molenaer's Family Portraits and Cultural Politics." Oud Holland, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie,, 20 double-spaced pages (forthcoming), "Georg Forster's 'Ansichten vom Niederrhein' as a Source Book for Caspar David Friedrich." German Studies Review, Arizona State University Press, 23 double-spaced pages (forthcoming), "Rembrandt's Night Watch and the Politics of Theater." Theater Survey, American Society for Theater Research, 20 double-spaced pages (forthcoming), "Forster, Georg (1754-1794)." Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001, 12 double-spaced pages (forthcoming), "Caspar David Friedrich and National Antiquarianism in Germany" in Producing the Past: Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1650-1850, ed. Lucy Peltz and Martin Myrone. London: Ashgate 1999, pp. 95-113, "New Art From Native America. Lewisburg: Center Gallery, Bucknell University 1997. pp.1-12, "Lines, Marks, and Memories: Prints and Drawings 1953-1985" in Curtis Carter, Johann JK Reusch, and Dean Sobel. Fred Berman: A Retrospective, Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin, 1994, pp. 17-23, Carter, Curtis and Johann JK Reusch. Wisconsin Art. A Celebration of Jewish Presence. Milwaukee: Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 1994, pp. 1-7, Politics of Nature: Art & Ideology in European Prints and Drawings 1650-1850. Milwaukee: Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 1993, pp. 1-9.

Anna Richards did her first degree in French and German at Cambridge University. She then did an M.Phil in European Literature at Oxford University. After a year in Hamburg as a Hanseatic scholar, she completed a D.Phil on the theme of illness in German women's novels of the 19th century at Oxford. Since 1999 she has worked as a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.

Adam Roberts is Reader in Nineteenth Century Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Robert Browning Revisited (Twayne, 1996), Romantic and Victorian Long Poems: A Guide (Ashgate 1999), Science Fiction (Routledge 1999), Fredric Jameson (Routledge 2000). He has edited Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson for the Oxford Authors series (OUP, 1997 and 1999), and was associate editor on Schlicke (ed) The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens (OUP 1998). He has contributed to various scholarly journals, including Studies in Romanticism, Victorian Poetry, Studies in English Literature, English and The Dickensian.

Birgit Röder studied at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Reading, where she completed her PhD-thesis. She is a part-time lecturer in the Department of German Studies at the University of Reading. Her principal research interests are nineteeth-century German literature, especially Romanticism. She has published on E.T.A. Hoffmann.

Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia is a Russian language assistant at the School of Modern Languages, Department of German and Russian, University of Edinburgh. She received her first degree in Russian language and literature from Moscow State University and her PhD (equiv.) degree - from the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow). Rogatchevkaia is primarily interested in early Russian literature, but has also written articles on nineteenth-century Russian literature and cultural studies (e.g. a textbook for school pupils and teachers 'Ot russkogo klassitsizma k realizmu: D.I.Fonvizin, A.S.Griboedov', Moscow: Shkola-Press, 1995) and Russian émigré literature. A revised version of her doctoral thesis was published in 1999 in Moscow (Tsikl molitv Kirilla Turovskogo: teksty iissledovaniia, Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kul'tury). Among her current research projects are: the Russian historical novel, Russia and the West: aspects of medieval culture, Anastasia: Dead or Alive.

Andrei Rogatchevski, Lecturer in Russian at the Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow. Author of a monograph on the rhetorical tradition in Pushkin (1994), co-editor of *Bribery and Blat in Russia* (2000).

Joseph Rosenblum received his Ph.D. in English from Duke University. A contributor to various journals and reference works, hee teaches at the University of North Carolina at Grensboro.

Christopher Routledge wrote his PhD thesis on Raymond Chandler and Modernity. He has written and published on detective fiction, including Raymond Chandler, Chandler, G. K. Chesterton and Paul Auster, He is also co-editor of Mystery in Children's Literature (Palgrave 2001). He has lectured on literature and film at several universities and higher education colleges in the UK and is now a freelance writer.

Dr. Michael Rowe, Lecturer in European History, School of Modern History, Queen's University, Belfast Contributed (to edited books): "Forging 'new-Frenchmen': state propaganda in the Rhineland, 1794-1814," in Bertrand Taithe and Tim Thornton (eds.), Propaganda (1999). "Between France and Germany: Napoleon's legacy in the Rhineland," in David Laven and Lucy Riall (eds.), Napoleon's Legacy: Problems of Government in Europe, (2000). "Napoleon and state-formation in Central Europe," in Philip Dwyer (ed.), Napoleon, France and Europe: A Reassessment, (2001). Contributed (to journals) articles on concepts of sovereignty and nationality in Napoleonic France to the European Review of History, and on Napoleonic French rule in the Rhineland to The Historical Journal. In addition, currently working on a history of the Rhineland during the period of enlightened absolutism, revolution, Napoleon and restoration (1780-1830).

Dr. Nicolaas Rupke teaches the History of Science and is Director, Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany. He is the author of several scientific biographies, including a study of the Oxford geologist William Buckland, The Great Chain of History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) and of the London biologist Richard Owen (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994). Among the books he has edited are Vivisection in Historical Perspective (London: Routledge, 1987) and, most recently, Medical Geography in Historical Perspective (London: Medical History, Supplement No. 20, 2000). He is currently writing a book on Alexander von Humboldt.

Dr. Sharon Ruston is Lecturer in English, Department of English, at the University of Wales-Bangor. She is author of: Biographies of Keats and Shelley for Chadwyck-Healey Literature On-line. She is edditor of: The Influence and Anxiety of the British Romantics: Spectres of Romanticism (2000).

Christine A. Rydel is Professor of Russian, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan,. She is the author of: A Nabokov's Who's Who, 2001. She is edditor of: The Ardis Anthology of Russian Romanticism, 1984, Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Prose in the series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1998, Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Poetry and Drama in the series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1999. Other publications include: "Bella Axmadulina's Literary Odyssey," in Critical Essays on the Prose and Poetry of Modern Slavic Women, ed. by Nina Efimov, Christine D. Tomei, Richard Chapple, 1998, "Bella Akhmadulina," in Women Russian Writers, vol.2., ed. Christine D. Tomei, 1999. She contributes to Russian Literature Triquarterly, Russian Language Journal, The Michigan Academician, Romantic Russia, Canadian-American Slavic Studies on the following topics: Bella Akhmadulina, H. G. Wells and Mikhail Bulgakov, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, H.G. Wells's Russia in the Shadows, A Bibliography of Russian Romanticism in English, and F. I. Tyutchev.

Dr. Jonathan Sachs is an Instructor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Diego Saglia, Lecturer in English Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of Parma (Italy). Author of: Byron and Spain: Itinerary in the Writing of Place, 1996; Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia, 2000. Editor of: "Romanticism and Cultural Geography," European Journal of English Studies, 2002 Contributor to: "War Romances, Historical Analogies and Coleridge's Letters on the Spaniards," Romantic Wars, Philip Shaw (editor), 2000. Contributor to: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Romantic-period Translation from Spanish into English), Byron Journal (Byron and Spain), Comparative Literature Studies (The Alhambra and Romantic Exoticism), English Literary History (Romantic Nationalism), Nineteenth-Century Literature (Robert Southey), Rivista di Studi Vittoriani (Felicia Hemans), Studies in the Novel (Ann Radcliffe), Studies in Romanticism (Luxury and Romantic Poetry by Women), Women's Writing (Mary Russell Mitford).

Robert Samuels is a Lecturer in the Music Department of The Open University. He studied English and Music at Cambridge, graduating with a B.A. in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1994. He worked at Lancaster University from 1989 to 1995 before moving to his current post. His work centres on analysis of music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and is interested in aesthetics and the relationships between music and other art forms, especially literature. He has written on Schubert, Schumann, and Mahler amongst others. His book Mahler's Sixth Symphony: a study in musical semiotics was published by CUP in 1995, and a book on the nineteenth-century symphony and novel is scheduled for publication by Pendragon Press in 2003.

Cherry Sandover, PhD student & Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, England. Contributor to Dictionary of Artists' Models; essays on Anne-Gabrielle Greuze; Mary Lloyd; Anna (Nanna) Risi; Louise Vernet, Printing the Unprintable: The Bicentenary of Goya's Caprichos edited by Dr Sarah Symmons (catalogue, 1999) . Contibutor of 'The Dome of his Mausoleum: Commemorating the 18th-century Artist' to Transactions of the Romney Society Vol 5 2000, edited by David A Cross M.A.

Benedict Sarnaker studied piano with Claudio Arrau and musicology under Thurston Dart. He has taught at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Goldsmiths University of London in England and the University of Arizona (Tucson) and the University of Notre Dame (Indiana) in the USA, where he now resides. He specialized in nineteenth-century Italian opera and the twentieth-century European Avant Garde. He has also contributed to research into the application of computer technologies to musicological research and the synthesis of electronic music.

Dr. Rachel Sauvé, Associate Professor, Department of French, University of New Brunswick. Author of:- De l'éloge à l'exclusion. Les femmes auteurs et leurs préfaciers au XIXe siècle, 2000.Contributor to edited books: - " Discours préfaciel et poétique des genres ," Masculin / féminin dans la poésie et les poétiques du XIXe siècle, C. Planté ed., 2002, - " Au-delà de l'édification : tracé de quelques leitmotive dans un siècle de notices sur La Comédie humaine " Réflexions sur l'autoréflexivité balzacienne, A. Oliver & S. Vachon ed., 2002, - " Pratiques discursives dans les préfaces allographes : du stratégique au ludique " Itinéraires du XIXe siècle II, R. Le Huenen & S. Vachon ed., 2001, - " La Muse et l'écrivain : contruction de l'identité dans deux préfaces de Théphile Gautier " L'oeuvre d'identité. Essais sur le romantisme de Nodier à Baudelaire, C. Nesci & D. Maleuvre ed., 1996, - De Goethe à Madame Stowe, la poétique des autres : Sand préfacière allographe " Sand et la poétique du roman, J. Goldin ed., 1996.

Esther Schor is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University, where she teaches 19th Century British Literature and Jewish Studies. She is the author of *Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria* (Princeton, 1994) and editor of the *Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley* (forthcoming).

Alison M. Scott assumed the post of Charles Warren Bibliographer for American History at Harvard University in 2000, after holding library appointments in Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, and Ohio. She has pursued graduate work in library science, religion, and American studies, and received her Ph.D. from Boston University in 1995. Her publications include The Writing on the Cloud: American Culture Confronts the Atomic Bomb, co-edited with Christopher D. Geist (University Press of America, 1997); "Organizing the Brain Attic: Indexing the Commonplace Books of Sherlock Holmes," Baker Street Journal (1994); and "'Tantalising Fragments': The Proofs of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (1994).

Dr. Ann Sears, Professor of Music and Department Chair, Wheaton College. Author of: "Ruth Lynda Deyo and Her Grand Opera, The Diadem of Stars," in An American Composer Looks at Egypt, exhibition catalog, Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, 1999; Fi-yer! A Century of African-American Song, William Brown, tenor, and Ann Sears, piano, compact disc, Albany Records, l999; Deep River: Songs and Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh, Oral Moses, bass, and Ann Sears, piano, compact disc, Northeastern Records, 1995; reissued by Albany Records, 1999. Contributor to:"Dana Suesse," New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed., ed. Stanley Sadie, 2000; "Basile Barés," "Thomas Greene "Blind Tom" Bethune," "John William "Blind" Boone," "Edmund Dédé," "Charles-Lucien Lambert," "Lucien-Leon Lambert," "Sidney Lambert," "Samuel Snaër," and "Henry Williams," International Dictionary of Black Composers, ed., Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., 1999; "Oklahoma!"; "Rodgers and Hammerstein"; "Rodgers and Hart"; "South Pacific"; and "The Sound of Music," St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, ed. Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast, 1999; "Harry T. Burleigh," with Jean Snyder, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, ed. Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, 1995; "Keyboard Music by Nineteenth-Century Black Americans," in Feel the Spirit: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Music, ed. George R. Keck, 1988. Contributor to: "An American Composer Answers the Call to Egypt," in the Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, Spring, l997, pp. 8-10; and "John William 'Blind' Boone, Pianist-Composer: 'Merit, Not Sympathy, Wins'," in Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall, 1989, pp. 225-247.

Dr. Stephen Shapiro, Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies,University of Warwick, England. Editor of : Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic, 2001. Contributor to: edited books (give up to five references: title of your chapter, title of the book, name of editor and date of publication, including co-editors), "The Moment of the Condom: De Saint-Méry and Early American Print Sexuality" Pioneering North America, ed. Klaus Martens 2000, "Mass African Suicide and the Rise of Euro-American Sentimental: Stevenson and Equiano's Tales of the Semi-Periphery" Revolutions and Watersheds: Transatlantic Dialogues, 1775-1815 Wil Verhoeven and Beth Dolan Kurtz, eds. 1999, " 'I Could Kiss Him One Minute And Kill Him The Next!': The Limits Of Radical Male Friendship in Holcroft, CB Brown, and Mary Shelley" Images of Man in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Walter Göbel forthcoming, "Periodizing Postmodernism: Betamodernism and Geoculture" Hybrid Spaces: Theory, Culture, Economy ed. Johannes Angermüller 2000, "Of Mollies: Class and Same-Sex Sexualities in the Eighteenth Century" In a Queer Place, Kate Chedzoy and Emma Francis, eds 2001.

Dr. Karl Simms, Lecturer, English Language and Literature, University of Liverpool, England Author of: Paul Ricoeur (2002). Editor of: Ethics and the Subject (1997); Language and the Subject (1997); Translating Sensitive Texts (1997); the journal Language and Discourse (1993-97) Contributor to: Studies in Romanticism (article on William Godwin).

Dr. Karen Simons is a Lecturer in the English department at the University of Alberta (Canada). She has contributed articles on American women writers and the classical tradition to the Mississippi Quarterly (Kate Chopin) and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (Willa Cather).

Daniel Steuer holds a first degree in Biology and German, and a Ph.D. from Frankfurt University. He is a lecturer in the School of European Studies at the University of Sussex. His publications include Die stillen Grenzen der Theorie. Übergänge zwischen Sprache und Erfahrung bei Goethe und Wittgenstein (1999), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1992; with Kai Buchheister), and he co-edited a volume on Metaphor and Rational Discourse (with Bernhard Debatin and Timothy R. Jackson; 1997). He is currently working on the relation between literature, philosophy, and biography in Ludwig Wittgenstein and Thomas Bernhard, and, together with Ladislaus Löb and Laura Marcus, on a new English edition of Otto Weininger's Geschlecht und Charakter.

Kris Steyaert studied Germanic Philology at the University of Ghent (Belgium), English Romantic Literature at the University of York, and obtained his PhD at University College London. He has written on Chatterton, Keats, and P.B. Shelley. He lectures at the University of Hull.

Benedikt Stuchtey is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute, London and has published widely on the history of historiography and the history of (West-European) imperialism. He is currently working on a study on anti-colonialism in a comparative perspective. Book publications are "W.E.H. Lecky (1838-1903). Historisches Denken und politisches Urteilen eines anglo-irischen Gelehrten," Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht: Goettingen 1997. He has edited (with Peter Wende): "British and German Historiography, 1750-1950: Traditions, Perceptions, and Transfers," Oxford University Press: Oxford/New York 2000.

Dr. David Vallins is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Hiroshima, Japan. H eis the author of Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism (1999).

Dr. Ton van Kalmthout is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Dutch Language and Literature at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Author of: Muzentempels: Multidisciplinaire kunstkringen in Nederland tussen 1880 en 1914, Hilversum: Verloren, 1998. Editor of: W. van den Berg et al. (eds.), Haarlemse kringen: Vijftien verkenningen naar het literair-culturele leven in een negentiende-eeuwse stad, Hilversum: Verloren, 1993. G.F. van der Ree-Scholtens et al. (eds.), Deugd boven geweld: Een geschiedenis van Haarlem, 1245[-]1995, Hilversum: Verloren, 1995. Remieg Aerts et al. (eds.), Geleerden en leken: De wereld van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen 1840[-]1880. Haarlem and Rotterdam: Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen and Werkgroep 19e Eeuw, 2002. Contributor to edited books: "Een gezellige en nuttige vereniging: De Haagsche Kunstkring in het kunstverenigingsleven rond 1900," De Haagse bohème op zoek naar Europa: Honderd jaar Haagse Kunstkring, edited by E. Fernhout et al., Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 1992. "Frits Smit Kleine (1845[-]1931) en de kunstkringen van Haarlem," Haarlemse kringen: Vijftien verkenningen naar het literair-culturele leven in een negentiende-eeuwse stad, edited by W. van den Berg et al., Hilversum: Verloren, 1993. with D.P. Snoep and B.M.J. Speet: "Onderwijs, wetenschap, drukkers en musea," Deugd boven geweld: Een geschiedenis van Haarlem, 1245[-]1995, edited by G.F. van der Ree-Scholtens et al., Hilversum: Verloren, 1995. "Letterkunde en muziek," Deugd boven geweld: Een geschiedenis van Haarlem, 1245[-]1995, edited by in G.F. van der Ree-Scholtens et al., Hilversum: Verloren, 1995. "Een bezielde president: Pieter Haverkorn van Rijsewijk en de Rotterdamsche Kunstkring," Pieter Haverkorn van Rijsewijk 1839[-]1919: Dominee, journalist en museumdirecteur, edited by J. de Vries et al., Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, [1996]. Contributor to journals: De Negentiende Eeuw, on multidisciplinary art clubs in the Netherlands, 1880[-]1914, and on nineteenth-century drama societies. Jaarboek Die Haghe, on the multidisciplinary art club of The Hague, 1890[-]1900. Simiolus, on F.T. Marinetti Boekmancahier , on the professionalization of Dutch and Flemish authors, 1875[-]1914. Nederlandse Letterkunde, on literary reading education, 1890[-]1940

Dr. Dietrich v. Engelhardt studied philosophy, history and Slavic languages in Tübingen, Munich and Heidelberg. He wrote his doctoral thesis on 'Hegel und die Chemie. Studie zur Philosophie und Wissenschaft der Natur um 1800' in 1969. He is active in a criminological research project 'Verlaufsformen delinquenten Verhaltens' (The criminal career), combined with psychotherapy with criminals (Institut für Kriminologie, Heidelberg). He was an Assistant in the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Heidelberg from 1971-1976. Since 1983 he has been Director of the Institute for History of Medicine and Natural Sciences of the Medical University of Lübeck. Since 1998 he has been President of the Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin. His research interests include: Philosophy of Medicine, History of Medical Ethics, Ethics in Medical Education, Medicine in Literature, Science and Medicine in the epoch of Idealism and Romanticism, Historical Conciousness of Natural Sciences, Coping Processes of the Patient. Publications: Hegel und die Chemie. Studie zur Philosophie und Wissenschaft der Natur um 1800, Wiesbaden 1976; with H. Schipperges: Die inneren Verbindungen zwischen Philosophie und Medizin im 20. Jahrhundert, Darmstadt 1980; Mit der Krankheit leben. Grundlagen und Perspektiven der Copingstruktur des Patienten, Heidelberg 1986; with T. Henkelmann and A. Krämer: Florenz und die Toscana. Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit von Medizin, Kunst und Wissenschaft, Basel 1987; (ed.): Ethik im Alltag der Medizin: Spektrum der medizinischen Disziplinen. Berlin 1989, Basel 21997, ital. Mailand 1994, lit. Vilnius 1997, turk. Istanbul 2000; (ed.): Diabetes: its medical and cultural history, Berlin 1989; Medizin in der Literatur der Neuzeit, Hürtgenwald 1991; with F. Hartmann (ed.): Klassiker der Medizin, vol. 1-2, München 1991; Henrich Steffens: Was ich erlebte, vol. 1-10, Breslau 1840-44, Neudruck Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1995-96; (co-ed.) Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, vol. 1ff, München 1995ff; Krankheit, Schmerz und Lebenskunst: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Körpererfahrung, München 1999; with A. Gierer (ed.): Georg Ernst Stahl (1659-1734) in wissenschafts-historischer Sicht (= Acta historica Leopoldina Nr. 30), Halle 2000; with H. Schneble u. P. Wolf (ed.): "Das ist eine Krankheit" - Epilepsie in der Literatur, Stuttgart 2000; with K. Bergdolt (ed.): Schmerz in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur, Hürtgenwald 2000; with U. Wiesing u. A. Simon (ed.): Ethik in der medizinischen Forschung, Stuttgart 2000; with L. Dittrich u. A. Rieke-Müller (ed.): Die Kulturgeschichte des Zoos, Berlin 2000.

Dr. Peter Wagstaff is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Bath (UK). He is the author of Memory and Desire: Rétif de la Bretonne, Autobiography and Utopia (1996) and editor of Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement (2003), with W. Everett. He contributed "The Dark Side of Utopia: Word, Image, and Memory in Georges Perec's Récits d'Ellis Island: histoires d'errance et d'espoir" to The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity, edited by Wendy Everett (2000) and articles on Rétif de la Bretonne and Autobiography to Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century and Eighteenth-Century Fiction.

Dr. Nicholas White is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Dr. Peter Whyte is Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow (2001-2003) in the School of Modern European Languages at the University of Durham (UK). He is the author of Théophile Gautier, conteur fantastique et merveilleux (1996) and editor of Julien Gracq, Un balcon en forêt (1969), La Culture populaire en France (with Christopher Lloyd, 1997), Théophile Gautier, Romans, contes et nouvelles (with Pierre Laubriet, Jean-Claude Brunon, Jean-Claude Fizaine and Claudine Lacoste, 2 vols, 2002). He has contributed the following essays to edited books: "Baudelaire, Hoffmann et la musique" in E.T.A. Hoffmann et la musique, edited by Alain Montandon (1987), "Types et stéréotypes: Taine face à l'Angleterre victorienne" in L'Europe despolitesses et le caractère des nations, edited by Alain Montandon (1997), "Théophile Gautier et les stratégies du récit poétique" in Mythe et récit poétique, edited by Véronique Gély-Ghedira (1998) and "État présent des études sur Théophile Gautier" and "'L'Art' de Gautier, genèse et sens" in Relire Théophile Gautier. Le Plaisir du texte, edited by Freeman G. Henry (1998) He has written articles on a number of French authors for journals, including Revue de littérature comparée (two items, on Gautier and Nerval), Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France (one item on Gautier), Romantisme (one item on Taine), and Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier (ten items on Gautier's novels, short stories, travel writing, bibliography, the author's relations with Nerval and his influence on Oscar Wilde).

Dr. Christopher J. Wickham, Associate Professor of German, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio. Author of: Diendorf (Kr. Nabburg) , 1987; Constructing Heimat in Postwar Germany, 1999. Editor of: "Was in den alten Büchern steht . . .": Neue Interpretationen von der Aufklärung zur Moderne, 1991 (with Karl-Heinz Schoeps); Framing the Past: The Historiography of German Cinema and Television, 1992 (with Bruce A. Murray). Contributor: "Heimatdichter as Nestbeschmutzer," in The Concept of Heimat in Contemporary German Literature, edited by H. Seliger, 1987; "Doolsummsä and Berchbläidl: Laughter and Fitzgerald Kusz's Democratization of Poetry through Dialect," in Laughter Unlimited, edited by Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand, 1991; "Narrative Strategies of Experience, Fact, and Fantasy in Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl," in "Was in den alten Büchern steht . . .": Interpretationen von der Aufklärung bis zur Moderne, edited by Christopher J. Wickham and Karl-Heinz Schoeps, 1991; "Wohin und zurück: Perspectives on Axel Corti's Jewish Trilogy," in After Postmodernism: Austrian Literature and Film in Transition, edited by Willy Riemer, 2000; "postmodern mundart: Zum Schnubiglbaierisch des Felix Hoerburger," in Von Bayern nach Taiwan. Felix Hoerburger und sein musikalisch-literarisches Werk, edited by Thomas Emmerig, 2001. Contributor to: German Life and Letters "The Appeal of Mundartdichtung"; Germanic Review "Achternbusch, Herzog and the Concept of Heimat"; German Quarterly "Edgar Reitz'sHeimat"; Modern Language Studies "Peter Turrinni's Alpensaga"; Yearbook of German-American Studies "Portrayal of Native Americans by 19th-Century German Painters."

Alexandra Wilson is currently completing a doctorate (on the critical reception of Puccini's operas in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy) in the Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is also an Associate Lecturer in Music for the Open University, England. Publications include: Music and Letters: Review of Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective (Susan Vandiver Nicassio, Chicago and London, 1999),February 2001.Review of Giacomo Puccini: L'uomo, il musicista, il panorama europeo. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi su Giacomo Puccini nel 70 anniversario della more, (ed. Gabriella Biagi Ravenni and Carolyn Gianturco, Lucca, 1997), February 2000.

Susan J. Wolfson, Professor of English, Princeton University. Author of Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism, 1997. Women in the Curriculum: British Literature, 1997. The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry, 1986. Editor of: The Cambridge Companion to John Keats, 2001. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, & Reception, 2000. The Romantics & Their Contemporaries, in The Longman Anthology of British Literature, coed. Peter Manning, 1998. Selected Poetry of Thomas Hood, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, coed. Peter J. Manning. 2000; new edition, 2001. Lord Byron: Selected Poems, coed. Peter J.Manning. 1996. Contributor to edited books: "Wollstonecraft and the Poets," The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft, ed. Claudia Johnson. 2001. "Wordsworth and Poetic Craft." The Cambridge Companion to William Wordsworth, ed. Stephen Gill. 2001. "Hemans and the Romance of Byron." Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Nanora Sweet and Julie Melnyck. 2001. "A Lesson in Romanticism: Gendering the Soul." The Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion, ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner. 1998. "Keats Enters History: Autopsy, Adonais, and the Fame of Keats." Keats and History, ed. Nicholas Roe.1995. Contributor to journals: Criticism (on digression in "Keats's Isabella). Eighteenth-Century Life (the problem of meter in Romantic poetics) ELH (essays on gender questions in Byron's Don Juan; on effeminacy in Byron's Sardanapalus), European Romantic Review (essays on Keats; on the idea of a "Romantic Century"), Huntington Library Quarterly (on Charlotte Smith's Emigrants), Journal of English and Germanic Philology (on questioning in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads), Keats-Shelley Journal (on the forms of and in Keats's late lyrics) Modern Language Quarterly (on formalist criticism), Nineteenth-Century Contexts ("Shakespeare and the Romantic Girl Reader"), PMLA (on Wordsworth Prelude and issues revision), Review (several essays on textual editing and revision, Frankenstein, The Prelude, Lyrical Ballads, Keats's poems), Revue Internationale de Philosophie (a critique of "Romantic Ideology), Romantic Praxis (on the "Box Hill" episode of Austen's Emma), Romanticism on the Net (essays on editing Hemans; on editing Hood, Praed, and Beddoes; on the new anthologies)., Romanticism Past and Present (on Keats's poetics of letter writing) Studies in Romanticism (essays on "Romanticism and Aesthetic Ideology"; on formalist criticism; on Byron's Corsair; on Keats and politics).

Dr. Susan Wollenberg, University Lecturer in Music, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford. Widely published as author and editor; contributor on various topics including 18th-and 19th-century Austro-German and British music, and keyboard music, to numerous musicological journals, symposia and reference works, among them The New Grove Dictionary and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart; C.P.E. Bach Studies (Oxford, 1988), and Schubert Studies (Aldershot, 1998). Book (Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries) forthcoming: OUP, 2001.

Sarah F. Wood is a doctoral student in the English Department at University College London. She is a contributor to: overhere: a european journal of american studies and Notes and Queries (articles on early American fiction).

Dr. Jennifer Yee is a Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Newcastle, England. She is the author of: Clichés de la femme exotique, L'Harmattan, 2000 and a contributor to: L'Esprit créateur (on images of miscegenation in French colonial literature); The Australian Journal of French Studies (on Oriental women in the works of Gautier and Flaubert); French Studies, a Quarterly Review (on the Femme fatale and the battle of the sexes at the turn of the century).

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