BERNARD BEATTY Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Liverpool University PHILIP DAVIS Reader in the English Department at the University of Liverpool GARY DAY Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at DeMontfort University, Bedford ANGUS EASSON Professor of English and Head of Department at the University of Salford ROBIN GILMOUR Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen MICHAEL IRWIN Professor of English Literature, University of Kent DANIEL KARLIN Professor of English, University College London JACQUELINE M. LABBE Reader in Nineteenth-Century Poetry, University of Warwick JIL LARSON Associate Professor of English, Western Michigan University SCOTT McCRACKEN Senior Lecturer in English, University of Salford RALPH PITE Senior Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool SUSAN ROWLAND Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich TREFOR THOMAS Research Associate in the Centre for North-West Regional Studies based in the Department of History, Manchester Metropolitan University