The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts

Auteur

Joe Bray is Professor of Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Language of Jane Austen (2018), The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period (2016), The Female Reader in the English Novel (2008) and The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness (2003), and co-editor of, amongst others, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (2012). Hannah Moss works for the National Trust, having completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield. Her thesis, entitled 'Sister Artists: The Artist Heroine in British Women's Writing, 1760-1830', explores how the woman artist is characterised in poetry and prose fiction of the period and she has published articles on the British reception of Germaine de Staël's Corinne (1807), the role of the arts in the novels of Ann Radcliffe, and the paratextual framing of Felicia Hemans' ekphrastic poem, 'Properzia Rossi' (1828).