Introduction: Engaging the Victorians

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We would like to thank all of the delegates who participated in the various debates that took place at the conference. Thanks also to the British Academy for awarding us a conference grant and to members of the Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Exeter and the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research at Cardiff University for their generous intellectual support and engagement. We owe a particular debt of gratitude to Jessica Webb for her editorial assistance with the preparation of this double special issue. Finally we would like to thank the editors at Literature Interpretation Theory for all their work and support.

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Rebecca Munford

Rebecca Munford is a Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. She has published essays on the European Gothic, Angela Carter, Daphne du Maurier and the relationship between feminism and popular culture. She is the editor of Re-visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts (Palgrave, 2006), co-editor of Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration (Palgrave 2004 and 2007) and author of Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers: Angela Carter and the European Gothic, which is forthcoming with Manchester University Press.

Paul Young

Paul Young lectures in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. He has published articles and book chapters relating to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and Victorian imperialism. His first book, entitled Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order, appeared in Palgrave's Studies in Nineteenth Century Writing and Culture series at the beginning of 2009.