Clara Tuite is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge University Press, 2002), co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770 1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and co-editor, with Claudia L. Johnson, of A Companion to Jane Austen (2009).