ANTHONY MANDAL is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cardiff, UK. His research focuses on the Romantic novel, book history and the Gothic. He is editor of the journal Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, co-editor of The English Novel, 1830-1836 (2003) and The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe (forthcoming, 2007), and developer of British Fiction, 1800-29: A Database of Production, Circulation & Reception (2004).