Ian Haywood is professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research in Romanticism at Roehampton University (London). His major research interests are currently the literature and visual culture in the 18th and 19th centuries; previous interests have included literary forgery, working-class writing, Chartism, and popular women’s texts of the post-war period. He has recently authored Bloody Romanticism: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of Representation 1776-1832 (Palgrave, 2006) and The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People 1790-1860
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