GEORGE BOYS-STONES is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Durham University, UK. DAVID BROWN is Wardlaw Professor of Theology, Aesthetics and Culture at the University of St Andrews, UK. JUDITH BUCHANAN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. STEVEN CONNOR is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, London, UK. DAVID FULLER is Emeritus Professor of English at Durham University, UK. ANTONY GORMLEY is a renowned British sculptor. P. D. JAMES is a celebrated writer of detective fiction. SUSAN JONES is Fellow in English at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, UK. FRANCIS O'GORMAN is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. MARTIN POSTLE is Director of Academic Activities at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, UK. RICHARD SUGG is Fellow in Literature and Medicine in the University of Durham, UK. MARINA WARNER is a prize-winning writer of fiction, criticism and history, and Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK. PATRICIA WAUGH is Professor of English Studies in the University of Durham, UK.