Stephen C. Behrendt

Stephen C. Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished University Professor
of English at the University of Nebraska. He has published widely on
the Shelleys and on Blake, in addition to authoring numerous studies
of relations among the arts. Recent books include Shellley and His
Audiences (1989), Approaches to Teaching Shelley's 'Frankenstein'
(1990), Reading William Blake (1992), and Royal Mourning and
Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte (1997).
His poetry has also been published widely and includes two books: Instruments
of the Bones (1992) and A Step in the Dark (1996). His major
current research centers on British women poets of the Romantic period;
among projects in this area he is presently co-editing an electronic
archive of Scottish women poets of the Romantic period (forthcoming,
Alexander Street Press).