Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. In addition to this present volume, her editorial work includes  Felicia Hemans (Princeton UP, 2000) and the Longman Cultural Edition of John Keats.  With Claudia Johnson, she is coeditor of the Longman Cultural Edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. With Peter Manning, she is coeditor of the Romantics volume in The Longman Anthology of British Literature, and Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Penguin, 2005).  Her critical books include the prize-winning Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 1997) and Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2007).   Barry V. Qualls is the author of The Secular Pilgrims: The Novel as Book of Life (Cambridge), and of articles and reviews on 19th-Century English Literature and on the Bible and its literary impact.   His teaching interests focus on Victorian fiction and on biblical literatures.  At Rutgers, he is Vice President of Undergraduate Education; earlier he served as Dean of Humanities for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and as Chair of the Department of English.

• List of Illustrations  About Longman Cultural Editions  About this Edition  Table of Dates  Mary Shelley and Transformation  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851                                               Transformation  Absence  From "Introduction" to Frankenstein (1831)  Charles Darwin            From The Voyage of the Beagle: (1839):  "Tierra del Fuego"  From The Descent of Man: (1871):  "General Summary and Conclusion"  Robert Louis Stevenson and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  Keywords: Strange and Case             Poetry from A Child’s Garden of Verses  Young Night ThoughtWindy NightsEscape at BedtimeThe Land of NodA Good BoyShadow MarchThe Unseen PlaymateMy ShadowThe Dumb SoldierThe Land of Story-Books  A Chapter of Dreams  Letters (with a reply from J. A. Symonds)  Robert Louis Stevenson and his friends on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde   Max Nordau, from Degeneration (1895)  Joseph Conrad and The Secret Sharer  Joseph Conrad 1857-1924              The Secret Sharer  Joseph Conrad’s letters on The Secret Sharer             From "Author's Notes" on "the basic fact of the tale" ('Twixt Land and Sea 1920)        Joseph Conrad on the art of fiction from Henry James, An Appreciation          From “Author’s Note” (1920) to The Shadow Line      Further Reading and Viewing