Carol T. Christ is Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Finer Optic and Victorian and Modern Poetics and coeditor of The Norton Anthology ...view moreCarol T. Christ is Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Finer Optic and Victorian and Modern Poetics and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. John O. Jordan is Director of the Dickens Project and Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor of Literature in the Marketplace.view less