The Oxford History of the Novel in English
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Ralph Crane is Professor and Head of English at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He was educated at the University of Wales, Swansea. The University of Victoria, BC, and the University of Tasmania. He worked in universities in New Zealand for 14 years before taking up his current position in 2004. He has published widely on colonial and postcolonial fictions, and has written or edited 21 books, including scholarly editions of several Anglo-Indian texts. His most recent books are Cave: Nature and Culture and a new scholarly edition of R.M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island (both with Lisa Fletcher). Jane Stafford teaches English at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of essays and articles on colonial and New Zealand literature and is the co-author of Maoriland: New Zealand Literature, 1872-1914 (2006) and the co-editor of The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature (2014). Mark Williams teaches English at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He was educated at Auckland University and at the University of British Columbia, where he gained a PhD in 1983. He has taught at several universities in New Zealand and was a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. Mark has published numerous articles, edited books, and monographs on New Zealand, modern, and postcolonial literature, including Leaving the Highway: Six Contemporary New Zealand Novelists (1990), Patrick White (1993), and The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature (2014). He lives in Wellington and is married to Jane Stafford.