Philip Connell is a Professor of Literature and History at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on British literary, political, and intellectual history from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. His most recent book is Secular Chains: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is currently working on revolution and cultural memory in later Georgian Britain.
Annie Persons is an Advising Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she earned her PhD in English in 2025. Her work can be found in Modern Philology, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, and J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
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Professor Sharon Ruston is Chair in Romanticism of the English Literature and Creative Writing department at Lancaster University. She has published The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein (2021), Creating Romanticism (2013), Romanticism: An Introduction (2010), and...
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