Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Si?e

Jane Ford has taught across the undergraduate English Literature curriculum at the University of Portsmouth, UK and, more recently, Keele University, UK. Her current work focuses on metaphors of economic exploitation and domination in fin-de-siècle writing and she has written chapters and articles on Vernon Lee, Lucas Malet and Bertram Mitford.Kim Edwards Keates is a sessional tutor at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She has published in Dickens and Modernity, recently co-edited the Victorian Periodicals Review special issue, Digital Pedagogies: Building Learning Communities for Studying Victorian Periodicals (2015), and is Bibliographer (with Clare Horrocks) of Dickens QuarterlyPatricia Pulham is Reader in Victorian Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is author of Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales (2008), and has published articles on a range of nineteenth-century writers including William Hazlitt, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Olive Custance. She has co-edited several collections of essays, most recently, Decadent Crossings, a Special Issue of Symbiosis (October, 2012), and of a four-volume Routledge facsimile collection:?Spiritualism, 1840-1930 published in 2013.