Death and celebrity: introduction

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Charlotte Boyce

Charlotte Boyce is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research centres on Victorian literature and culture, with specific focus on food/ consumption, and the history of celebrity. She has co-authored monographs on A History of Food in Literature (2017) and Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson’s Circle (2013), and recently co-edited with Danielle Dove a special issue of Victoriographies on ‘Death, Nineteenth-Century Celebrity and Material Culture’ (2022).

Danielle Dove

Danielle Mariann Dove is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research and publications centre on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature, material culture, dress history, and literary celebrity. She is the co-editor of Neo-Victorian Things (2022), and together with Charlotte Boyce co-edited a special issue of Victoriographies on ‘Death, Nineteenth-Century Celebrity and Material Culture’ (2022).