Abby Scribner is Associate Thesaurus Editor at the Modern Language Association. Her article, “Liberalism and Inner Life: The Curious Cases of Mansfield Park and Villette,” was previously published in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction (2020). Her work on “Grim, metal darlings” was generously supported by a 2020–2021 Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University.
Rosetta Young is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Dartmouth College. She has previously published essays in Studies in the Novel, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and The Wordsworth Circle. Young℉s current book project focuses on the relationship between the novel and the development of the upper middle class as a sociocultural group in the transatlantic nineteenth century. She argues that major novelists of the period used the genre to define the upper middle class through its supposed ability to generate capital...
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