An associate professor of English and Film studies and Canada Research Chair in English at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Julia M. Wright is the editor of The Missionary: An Indian Tale and the co-editor of Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature, 1789-1837; Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism; and Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century.