David Duff studied in York and taught in Poland at the Nicholas Copernicus University of Torun and the University of Gdansk before moving to Scotland. He has published widely on Romantic poetics and book history. His previous publications include Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (1994), an anthology of Modern Genre Theory (2000), and a co-edited collection, Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic (2007). He is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism and The Oxford Anthology of Romanticism, a major new teaching anthology.