Claudia L. Johnson is Chair of the Department of Englishat Princeton University. Her previous books include Jane Austen:Women, Politics, and the Novel (1988), Equivocal Beings:Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s (1995), andThe Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (2002), alongwith editions of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1998),Sense and Sensibility (2002), and NorthangerAbbey (2003). Her forthcoming works include JaneAusten's Cults and Cultures, tracing permutations of"Jane mania" from 1817 to the present,and Raising the Novel, which explores modern efforts tocreate a novelistic canon by elevating novels to keystones of highculture.
Clara Tuite is Senior Lecturer in English at theUniversity of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen:Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (2002, 2008), as well asseveral essays on Austen, and the co-editor, with Gillian Russell,of Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture inBritain, 1770-1840 (2002, 2006).