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Don Adams is an Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. He has published critical work on a variety of modern authors, including James Merrill, Ronald Firbank, and James Purdy. Mariadele Boccardi is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Her research is in the area of contemporary British historical fiction, with particular focus on questions of nationhood, empire, and representation. Her monograph on the subject will be published by Palgrave in 2009. Sandie Byrne is formerly Fellow and Tutor in English at Balliol College, Oxford. She is the author of a number of books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. Her most recent publication is The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H.H. Munro (Oxford University Press, 2007). Christopher Thomas Cairney has taught at the Catholic University of Ecuador, National University in Korea, the University of Balamand in Lebanon, and Dogǧuş University in Istanbul. He is currently teaching at De Anza College (California). A dedicated Conradian, he is also interested in Celtic Studies. His most recent article is “Gaelic Borderlines and Borderlands in the New Cultural Geography of Scotland,” in Re-Visioning Scotland: New Readings from the Cultural Canon (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008). Peter Clandfield teaches in the Department of English Studies at Nipissing ... log in or subscribe to read full text