Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture Public Interiors

Emrys D. Jones
is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King’s College London, UK. He previously lectured at the University of Greenwich, and studied at Oxford and Cambridge universities. His first monograph, 
Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature
, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. He is a co-editor of the journal 
Literature and History
, and also editor of 
Criticks
, reviews website of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. His current research examines the phenomenon of the levée and other sites of formal hospitality in the eighteenth century.

Victoria Joule
is an independent scholar based in Wales. She was previously a lecturer at the universities of Exeter and Plymouth for ten years. Her research is into women’s writing, life-writing and the theatre of the long eighteenth-century and she has related articles published in Journals and an edited essay collection. She is currently completing a monograph on the writer Delarivier Manley and working on a larger project examining the significance of the stagecoach in eighteenth-century fiction.