This is a distinguished volume . . . and a great deal of first class scholarship, and its editors are to be congratulated on their work in bringing it all together. A brief review can barely do it justice, and it deserves to be widely used and read.
Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. He has published widely on English and French early modern literature. He is a Trustee of the Modern Humanities Research Association and a Fellow of the English Association. He is English literature editor of the journal MLR, series editor of The Yearbook of English Studies and series co-editor of Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. He is a former AHRC research fellow and is a Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age and the Enlightenment at Montpellier 3 University. His most recent monograph is entitled Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature.
Helen Wilcox is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. She has published extensively on early modern English literature, particularly devotional poetry, women's writing, Shakespeare, early autobiography, and the relationships between literature and religion, music, and the visual arts. Her publications include Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen (Routledge, 1989), the acclaimed annotated edition of The English Poems of George Herbert (Cambridge, 2007) and 1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). She has been a visiting professor in Singapore, Spain, and the USA., and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association, and the Learned Society of Wales.