Contributors

JAMES ELI ADAMS is Assistant Professor of English and Victorian Studies at Indiana University and co-editor of Victorian Studies . He has published a number of articles on Victorian literature and culture and is completing a book entitled Bold against Himself: Rhetorics of Victorian Masculinity .

MIRIAM BAILIN is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Her Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill was published by Cambridge University Press in 1994. She is working on a literary and cultural history of Victorian pathos.

SUSAN P. CASTERAS is Curator of Paintings at the Yale Center for British Art and has organized many exhibitions of Victorian art, including A Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and Authors; Pocket Cathedrals: Pre-Raphaelite Book Illustrations; Victorian Childhood; and Richard Redgrave . A member of the History of Art faculty at Yale, she has published extensively in the field of Victorian art, including books entitled English Pre-Raphaelitism and Its European Contexts, Images of Victorian Womanhood in English Art, and English Pre-Raphaelitism and Its Reception in America in the Nineteenth Century as well as numerous articles and essays in Victorian Studies, the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, and elsewhere.

CAROL T. CHRIST is Professor of English and Provost and Dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of Particularity in Victorian Poetry and Victorian and Modern Poetics and the editor, with George Ford, of the Victorian section of the Norton Anthology of

English Literature . She is at work on a project on death in Victorian literature.

GERARD CURTIS is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Essex and lectures in art history at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College (Memorial University), Newfoundland. He is the author of "Ford Madox Brown's Work: An Iconographical Analysis" and "Dickens in the Visual Market." Currently he is researching the relationship of image to word in Victorian culture.

JUDITH L. FISHER is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of "Annotations to the Art Criticism of William Makepeace Thackeray" and co-editor of When They Weren't Doing Shakespeare: Essays in Nineteenth-Century British and American Theater . She has recently finished a study of language and perception in Thackeray's art criticism and fiction, titled Thackeray's "Perilous Trade."

JENNIFER M. GREEN is Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Narrative Technique, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorians Institute Journal, and Victorian Studies, among others. She is completing a book on photography and representation.

ELLEN HANDY is an art historian and critic and teaches at LaGuardia College, CUNY. Her research encompasses many aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, particularly photography. Most recently, she organized an exhibition for the Chrysler Museum titled Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision, which presented the work of two Victorian photographers, H. P. Robinson and P H. Emerson.

MARGARET HOMANS is the author of Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing (1986) and of essays on nineteenth-century literature and on contemporary feminist theory. The essay in this volume is part of a book project on Queen Victoria and Victorian culture.

SUSAN R. HORTON'SDifficult Women, Artful Lives: Olive Schreiner and Isak Dinesen, In and Out of Africa is scheduled to appear in the fall of 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University Press. Her previous publications include Interpreting Interpreting, The Reader in the Dickens World, Thinking through Writing, and various essays on literary theory, literacy, and Dickens. A past president of the Dickens Society, she is Professor and former Chair of English at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

AUDREY JAFFE , Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University is the author of Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience (University of California Press, 1991) and of essays on Victorian literature. She is at work on a book about sympathy and representation in nineteenth-century British literature and culture.

JOHN O. JORDAN is Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the Dickens Project at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published articles on several Victorian writers, including Dickens, as well as essays on modern African literature and Picasso. He is co-editor, with Robert L. Patten, of Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

ROBERT M. POLHEMUS is Howard H. and Jesse T. Watkins University Professor in English at Stanford University. He is the author of Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence; Comic Faith: The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce; The Changing World of Anthony Trollope, and, most recently, an author and co-editor of Critical Reconstruction: The Relationship of Fiction and Life . He is at work on a book about parent-child relationships in fiction, faith in the child, and representations of children in literature and art.

LINDA M. SHIRES , Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University, is the author of numerous essays on Victorian literature and of British Poetry of the Second World War (1985), co-author of Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction (1988), and editor of Rewriting the Victorians (1992). A 1993–94 Guggenheim Fellow, she is currently writing a book on careers in the Victorian literary marketplace and editing the new Penguin edition of The Trumpet Major .

RICHARD L. STEIN is the author of The Ritual of Interpretation: The Fine Arts as Literature in Ruskin, Rossetti, and Pater (Harvard University Press, 1975) and Victoria's Year: English Literature and Culture, 1837–1838 (Oxford University Press, 1987) along with other writing on nineteenth-century British literature and the fine arts. He is working on a study of Victorian iconography. He has been a member of the faculty at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of Oregon.

Author most recently of Reading Voices: Literature and the Phonotext and of numerous articles on Victorian fiction and film, GARRETT

STEWART is James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa.

RONALD R. THOMAS is Associate Professor of English and Chairman of the Department at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Among his publications are Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious (Cornell University Press, 1990) and a number of articles on the novel, including studies of Dickens, Collins, Stevenson, and Beckett. He is currently writing Private Eyes and Public Enemies: The Science and Politics of Identity in American and British Detective Fiction, a book investigating the genre's involvement with emerging technologies of criminal identification in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to teaching at the University of Chicago, he has been a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard University.