ANTHONY MANDAL is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cardiff, UK. His research focuses on the Romantic novel, book history and the Gothic. He is editor of the journal
Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, co-editor of
The English Novel, 1830-1836 (2003) and
The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe (forthcoming, 2007), and developer of
British Fiction, 1800-29: A Database of Production, Circulation & Reception (2004).