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Jane Ford is a Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University. She is a specialist in the literature and culture of the fin de siècle and she is currently completing a monograph which examines the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late-nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest and exploitation. She is co-editor of Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Libidinal Lives (Routledge, 2016) and has published essays on Vernon Lee, Lucas Malet and Bertram Mitford.
Alexandra Gray is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. Alexandra's research interests include the New Woman, fin-de-siècle literature and culture, art history and criticism and medical and psychiatric history. She has recently published her first monograph, Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), and has also written on the work of Irish New Woman, George Egerton, hyperhidrosis in fiction, and the orphan figure in Victorian literature and culture. She is a co-editor of 'The Gateless Barrier,' an online impact project for the purposes of feminist literary recovery, featuring research on Lucas Malet's life and work. |
