The Poetry of Menotti Lerro

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Andrew Mangham is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading in the UK. He is the author of Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2007) and editor of a number of books including Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007) The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool University Press 2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (Cambridge University Press forthcoming). He is currently working on a study of Dickens medicine and the philosophy of science.Maria Rosaria La Marca obtained her degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Salerno in Italy with a thesis titled Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness: Solitude and Estrangement in an Unknown Environment. In 2007 she got an offer of admission to study for a PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Reading in the UK. She taught students with disabilities for two years and has been teaching English and/or French at secondary schools for several years. La Marca is the editor of The Eyes upon Criticism (Gli occhi sulla critica; Zona 2010) a work collecting authoritative reviews and critical judgments on the work of Menotti Lerro and Gianni Rescigno. La Marca completed her three Masters studies in Didactics of English Literature in Didactics of Foreign Languages and in Culture Literature and Civilization of England. She writes for the daily newspaper Il Nuovo Salernitano contributing literary reviews among them Pomezia Notizie and Annali Storici di Principato Citra. She copy-edited the anthology The Poets without Sky (I Poeti Senza Cielo; Il Melograno 2007) and some of her creative works are inserted in the anthology Le Solitudini di Aradollo (www.nuoviautori.org 2007).