list of contributors
He is the author ofTouchand Intimacy in First World War Literature(2005). He is
presently working on a monograph on India and First World War writing, and an
anthology that brings together Commonwealth responses to the First World War.
Rainer Emigis Professor of British Literature at the University of Regensburg. His
main areas of teaching and research are nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature
and culture. His publications includeModernism in Poetry(1995),W.H. Auden
(1999), andKrieg als Metapher im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert(War as Metaphor in
the Twentieth Century) (2001). He has recently completed a monograph entitled
Eccentricity: Culture from the Marginsand co-edited a collection of essays onHybrid
Humour.
Simon Featherstoneworks in the School of English, Performance, and Historical
Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester. His recent publications include
Postcolonial Cultures(2005).
Stacy Gillisis Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of
Newcastle. She has published widely on feminist theory, cybertheory, First World
War studies, and popular fiction. Forthcoming work includes a collection on the
First World War and popular culture and a monograph on twentieth-century
British detective fiction.
Helen Goethalsteaches Commonwealth history at the University of Lyon 2, and
her research is centred on the interaction of poetry and politics. The articles she
has published on the Second World War discuss the work of W. H. Auden, Philip
Larkin, John Jarmain, and George Orwell.
David Goldie is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate English in
the Department of English Studies at Strathclyde University. He is the author
ofA Critical Difference: T. S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary
Criticism, 1919–1928(1998) and co-editor ofBeyond Scotland: New Contexts for
Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature(2004) and the forthcomingScotland in the
Nineteenth-Century World(2006). His main areas of research and publication
are English and Scottish early twentieth-century literature, criticism, and popular
culture. He is currently working on a monograph on the Scottish literature and
popular culture of the First World War.
Hugh Haughton teaches English at the University of York. He has recently
completedDerek Mahon and Modern Irish Poetry(forthcoming, 2007). He is the
editor ofThe Chatto Book of Nonsense Poetry(1985),John Clare in Context(with
Adam Phillips, 1994),Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass(1998),
Sigmund Freud: The Uncanny(2003), andSecond World War Poems(2004). He is
currently co-editing (with Valerie Eliot)T. S. Eliot: The Letters.
Geoffrey Hillwas born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1932. He is the author
of a dozen books of poetry and three books of criticism. Since 1988 he has lived