Cultural Transformations in the English-Speaking World

Cecile Cottenet is Senior Lecturer at Aix-Marseille Universite in France. She is a specialist in African-American studies and book and publishing history in the United States. She is currently working on a book on the publication history of the works of Afro-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt. Jean-Christophe Murat is Senior Lecturer at Aix-Marseille Universite in France. His main research area is the literature of the 1940s and early '50s in Britain, and its relationships with the social, political and philosophical issues of the time. He is the author of many articles on the subject, published in E-rea, Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, The Space Between and in the volume Right/Left/Right. Revolving Commitments, France and Britain 1929-1950 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). Nathalie VANFASSE is Senior Lecturer at Aix-Marseille Universite in France. She is the author of Charles Dickens, entre normes et deviance (Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 2007) and has published articles on Dickens's work in Les Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, E-rea, The Dickens Magazine and in a number of edited volumes.