SARA THORNTON is Professor of English at the University of Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, France. She studied French literature at the University of London, UK, and at the
Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris before writing her PhD and 'habilitation' on Victorian literature. Publications include
David Copperfield: Lectures d'une Oeuvre and
Circulation and Transfer of Key Scenes in Nineteenth-century Literature.