Joel Faflak is Assistant Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the author of Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation, the editor of The Missionary: An Indian Tale, and the coeditor (with Tilottama Rajan) of Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre.

Addresses how Victorian receptions of Romanticism and Romantic writers were shaped by notions of "nervousness."