A Companion to the Brontes

Diane Long Hoeveler is Professor of English at Marquette University, USA. She has published widely on a variety of topics within literature, including gothic and religious transformations, romanticism and gender, and women writers in the nineteenth century. Most recently, she is author of The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti–Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1770–1870 (2014) and Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 (2010), which shared the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Award from the International Gothic Association. She is co–editor ofthe three–volume The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature (with Burwick and Goslee, Wiley Blackwell, 2012) . Hoeveler served as President of the International Conference of Romanticism from 2001–2003, and is now co–editor of the European Romantic Review.