Daniel Cook is an Associate Dean and Reader in English Literature at the University of Dundee. He is the author of Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760–1830 (2013), Reading Swift's Poetry (2020), and Walter Scott and Short Fiction (2021), as well as co-editor of Women's Life Writing, 1700–1850: Gender, Genre and Authorship (2012), The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2015), and Austen After 200: New Reading Spaces (2022).
Nicholas Seager is Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University. He is author of The Rise of the Novel: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (2012), co-editor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2015) and Samuel Johnson's The Life of Richard Savage (2016), and editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022).