Sophie ThomasSophie Thomas is Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, Spectacle (Routledge, 2008), and of numerous articles and chapters that address the crosscurrents beteen literature, material culture and visual culture in the Romantic period. She is currently completing a book on objects, collections, and museums at the turn of the nineteenth century—The Romantic Museum, 1770 – 1830: Matter, Memory, and the Poetics of Things—and beginning a new, funded program of research on Romanticism, museums and the poetics of sculpture. Read More Read Less