Daniel Cook is the Head of the English department at the University of Dundee. The author and editor of thirteen books, he has written extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature. His books include The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction and The Cambridge Companion to 'Gulliver's Travels' (both Cambridge University Press).
'… deeply learned and scholarly … deserves a wide audience beyond eighteenth-century studies.' Claude Willan, Eighteenth-Century Studies