NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

C.C. Barfoot, who taught in the English Department, Leiden University, for over thirty years until his retirement in 2002, published The Thread of Connection: Aspects of Fate in the Novels of Jane Austen and Others (1982); and has most recently edited, alone or with others, Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle: The Fusions and Confusions of Literary Periods (1999), Aldous Huxley between East and West (2001) and “My Rebellious and Imperfect Eye”: Observing Geoffrey Grigson (2002).

Åke Bergvall is Professor of English Literature at Karlstad University, Sweden. His published monographs are The “Enabling of Judgement”: Sir Philip Sidney and the Education of the Reader (1989) and Augustinian Perspectives in the Renaissance (2001), as well as on Spenser, Wordsworth and Dickens. He is presently working on a study of Milton’s uses of St Augustine.

Titus P. Bicknell studied Latin at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the Gregorian University in Rome and at the University of York where he also taught Latin while pursuing a DPhil on the Latin poetry of . He has been a contributing etymologist on the Encarta dictionary and compiled the Latin section of Orgelwoordenboek, a multilingual technical dictionary about the organ edited by Wilfried Praet. He is co-founder and a director of TheGalleryChannel.com, an online art information website.

Myra Cottingham teaches in both the School of Continuing Education and the Department of English at the University of Reading. She is also Director of the Humanities Programme in the School of Continuing Education. Her main research interest is in the late eighteenth century and the Romantic period. In addition to Wordsworth, she has published mainly on Felicia Hemans and Joanna Baillie.

Robert Druce joined the English Department, Leiden University in 1975. He published The Eye of Innocence: Children and Their Poetry (1965 and 1972); a novel, Firefang (1972); This Day Our Daily Fictions (1988, rev. edn. 1992). He has lived in Suffolk since his retirement in 1996; and is a Senior Examiner for the International Baccalaureate. 250 “The Natural Delineation of Human Passions”

Annemarie Estor is currently finishing her dissertation on Jeanette Winterson’s Science. She is a visiting research fellow at the Department of English at Leiden University. She writes poetry and has published some of her work in the Belgian Journal Deus ex Machina. Her website www.talkingtree.nl contains recent poems, journalism, and photography.

Paul E.A. van Gestel was a PhD student at the Department of Church History, Leiden University. He has published several articles relating to Enlightenment and , including “Dutch reactions to Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason”, in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (1999).

Jacqueline M. Labbe is a Reader in nineteenth-century poetry at the University of Warwick. She has published Romantic Visualities: Landscape, Gender and Romanticism (1998), The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830 (2000), and the forthcoming Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, Poetry and the Culture of Gender.

James McGonigal is Professor of English in Education in the University of . His publications include teacher development materials in literacy and language learning, as well as work on literary modernism: Sons of Ezra: British Poets and Ezra Pound (1994) and The Star You Steer By: Basil Bunting and British Modernism (2000). He has also co-edited several anthologies of contemporary Scottish writing, most recently Across the Water: “Irishness” in Modern Scottish Writing and My Mum’s a Punk: New Scottish Writing for Children (2002).

Daniel Sanjiv Roberts is a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. His teaching and research range from eighteenth-century to modern literature, with focal interests in the Romantic period and Indian literature in English. He is the author of Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge and the High Romantic Argument (2000) and the editor of De Quincey’s Autobiographic Sketches for The Works of Thomas De Quincey (2003). He is currently editing ’s The Curse of Kehama for Robert Southey: Poetical Works, 1793-1810.

Jacqueline Schoemaker studied English Literature at the University of Amsterdam and has done research on Keats and the Romantic and Aesthetic Movements. At present she works in the Flemish Cultural Institute in Amsterdam, where she edits a website on Flemish theatre performances in the Netherlands and has edited Oorsprong (2003), a book on contemporary Flemish artists.