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john schaeffer is professor of English at Northern Illinois University. He has published articles on the history of rhetoric in PMLA, Rhetorica, Studies in Philology, and Philosophy and Rhetoric. He recently published a two-volume English translation of Giambattista Vico’s Il dirito universale (Universal Law), and his book Sensus Communis: Vico, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Relativism (Duke University Press, 1990) has just been reprinted. (jschaeff@niu.edu)

k. m. newton is emeritus professor of English at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Among his recent publications are Modern Literature and the Tragic (2008), Modernizing George Eliot: The Writer as Artist, Intellectual, Proto-Modernist, and Cultural Critic (2011), and the Introduction to the new edition of Oxford World’s Classics’ Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (2014). (k.m.newton@dundee.ac.uk) [End Page 117]

david herman is professor of the Engaged Humanities in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK. Having co-guest edited, with Jared Gardner, a special issue of SubStance devoted to “Graphic Narratives and Narrative Theory” (2011), he is currently working on a monograph titled Narratology beyond the Human, in which comics and graphic novels about nonhuman animals feature importantly. (David.herman@durham.ac.uk)

jeanette roberts shumaker is professor of English at San Diego State University, Imperial Valley Campus. She has published on modern Irish fiction, Victorian fiction, and Anglo-Jewish writers. (jeanetteshumaker@gmail.com) [End Page 118]