Josephine M. Guy is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literary and intellectual culture, including The British Avantgarde: The Theory and Politics of Tradition (1991), The Victorian Social Problem Novel (1996), (ed.) The Victorian Age (1998, 2001), (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts (2018), and with Ian
Small, The Routledge Concise History of Nineteenth-Century Literature (2011), The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature (2012) and Politics and Value in English Studies (1993, 2009). She is also the co-author (with Ian Small) of two studies of Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and Culture Industry in the Late
Nineteenth Century (2000) and Studying Oscar Wilde (2006), as well as the editor of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Volume IV: Criticism (2007).