María Elena Jaime de Pablos teaches feminist literary criticism and English literature at the University of Almeria, Spain. She is General Editor of the Gender Studies journal Revista AUDEM and author of two studies on the representation of women in the writing of George Moore. She is currently working on the fiction of Mary O’Donnell.Mary Pierse has been a post-doctoral Research Fellow at University College Cork, Ireland, where she taught in the School of English and on the Women’s Studies MA programme. She has published on Irish feminisms, George Moore, fin-de-siècle literature and Franco-Irish cultural linkages.

• Contents: Adrian Frazier: Moore and Joyce: Confessions of a Young Man as an Influence on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Stoddard Martin: Moore versus Wilde: The Vagaries of Spite – Robert Becker: The Contrarian George Moore – Mary Pierse: Moore and Fogazzaro, Body and Soul: Zeitgeister of the Fin de Siècle? – Conor Montague: Philosophical Dialogue between the Brothers Moore (1903-1905): A Capacity for Misunderstanding – Elizabeth Grubgeld: George Moore’s Autobiographies and the Vampiric Grasp of Home: To be Seduced, Transfixed, and Terrified – Jayne Thomas: George Moore and the Unconscious in Evelyn Innes and Sister Teresa: ‘Shapes from an Underworld’ – Melanie Grundmann: Diseased Human Natures and their Menace to Society – Fabienne Gaspari: George Moore’s Sense of Paradox in A Mere Accident: ‘In Large and Serpentine Curves’ – Kathi R. Griffin: Esther Waters as Parody: Naturalism, Victorian Morality, and the ‘Bulges’ of Human Nature – José Antonio Hoyas Solís: Early Feminist or Mainstream Writer? A Linguistic Analysis of George Moore’s Portrayal of Women in Three Novels – María Elena Jaime de Pablos: Nora Glynn in The Lake: ‘A Natural Woman’ – Kathryn Laing: ‘On Women, on Art, on Life’: George Moore (1852-1933) and Hannah Lynch (1859-1904) – Catherine Smith: Listening to Héloïse in George Moore’s Héloïse and Abélard: ‘A Barbarian Girl and a Great Sorceress’.

"I compliment the editors on putting together such a fine collection, which does justice to its subject, and I look forward to more of the same in the years ahead: George Moore deserves no less." (Eamon Maher, ABEI Journal. The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 16/2014)