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Carolyn Williams
Carolyn Williams is Distinguished Professor and Kenneth Burke Chair in English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In addition to many essays on Victorian theater, poetry, and the novel, she is the author of Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody (2011) and the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama (2018). Earlier books are Transfigured World: Walter Pater’s Aesthetic Historicism (1989) and the co-edited collection of essays (with Laurel Brake and Lesley Higgins), Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire (2002). She is currently writing a study of Victorian melodrama, under the working title ‘Melodramatic Form.’