Phillip Mallett is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Rudyard Kipling: a Literary Life, and has edited a number of collections of essays, including Satire, Kipling Considered, Advances in Thomas Hardy Studies, and most recently Thomas Hardy in Context for Cambridge University Press. He has also prepared critical editions of both The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge, and is the Editor of the Thomas Hardy Journal.
