Kirstie Blair is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature in the University of Glasgow, and has previously taught at Keble College and St Peter's College, Oxford. Her primary research interests lie in Victorian literature, particularly poetry and poetic form, literature and medicine, and literature and religion. She has published a number of journal articles in these fields and has edited a collection of essays on John Keble, John Keble in Context (Anthem, 2004). She is also a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology and the Blackwell Companion to L...