Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture

Giles Whiteley is Professor of English Literature at Stockholm University. He has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, with a particular focus on the movement of aestheticism and decadence, including work on key figures such as Wilde, Huysmans and Pater, as well as writing frequently on Dickens.Dr Monika Class is a senior lecturer in English Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, SwedenCian Duffy is professor and chair of English literature at Lund University, Sweden Andrea Selleri, University of Warwick, is the editor of a recent book on Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He has published essays on mid- and late-Victorian philosophy and literature including work on Swinburne and Wilde.Peter Garratt, Durham University, has worked extensively on mid-Victorian philosophy and literature at the intersection of the cognitive and empirical sciences. His book on Victorian Empiricism (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010) showed the ways in which realist authors such as George Eliot worked in a climate informed by contemporary scientific philosophy. He has also published extensively on other Victorian authors and empirical philosophy, including Ruskin, Dickens, Gaskell and Vernon Lee.

• Volume I Literature and Philosophy of the Romantic Period, Volume II The Mid-Nineteenth Century, Volume III Literature and Philosophy in the ‘Long-Late-Victorian’ Period