Bradford K. Mudge is the author of Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter (1989) and The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684–1830 (2000); and the editor of British Romantic Novelists, 1789–1832 (1992) and When Flesh Becomes Word: An Anthology of Early Eighteenth-Century Libertine Literature (2004). In addition, he has published numerous essays on eighteenth-century English art and literature.