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Philip Connell Author & Editor

Philip Connell is a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Selwyn College, and was recently awarded an Early Career Fellowship at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) in Cambridge. He is the author of Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' (2001), together with a number of essays on the literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Nigel Leask is Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely in the area of romantic literature and culture, including Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840: 'From an Antique Land' (2002) and Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic of Taste (co-edited with David Simpson and Peter De Bolla, 2004).