Carl Plasa is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales College of Cardiff. He has published articles on nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature and is presently working on a study of inscriptions of colonialism in Austen, Charlotte Brontë and Rhys., Betty J. Ring is currently completing a doctoral thesis at Birkbeck College, University of London, on post-war consciousness in the work of William Golding.
Introduction
Carl Plasa
Betty J. Ring; Chapter 1 Looks that Kill
Anne Fogarty; Chapter 2 Sex
Slavery and Rights in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindications
Jane Moore; Chapter 3 "That Mild Beam"
Steven Vine; Chapter 4 "Silent Revolt"
Carl Plasa; Chapter 5 Anglo-American Connections
Elizabeth Jean Sabiston; Chapter 6 "Painting By Numbers"
Betty J. Ring; Chapter 7 Perilous Passages in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl
Jon Hauss; Chapter 8 The Irony of Idealism
David Lawrence Rogers; Chapter 9 Prophesying Bodies
April Lidinsky;