Peter Miles MA (Birmingham)
Peter Miles teaches and researches in the English novel. He has ancillary interests in: bibliography, textual criticism and book history; cultural studies; literature and the visual arts; literature and class. With M.Smith he has written Cinema, Literature and Society: Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain (Croom Helm:1987). He is author of The Critics Debate: Wuthering Heights (Macmillan:1990) and has edited such novels as Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Everyman:1993) and Arthur Morrison's A Child of the Jago (Everyman:1996). He has contributed to such critical collections as Philip Dodd's The Art of Travel (Frank Cass:1982) and Jeremy Hawthorn's The British Working-Class Novel in the Twentieth-Century (Edward Arnold:1984) and has published a number of articles on the writings of Tobias Smollett, of which the latest is "A Problem of Identity: Decoding Names, Bodies and Gender in Humphry Clinker", Eighteenth-Century Life" (1996).
(http://www.press.jhu.edu/demo/eighteenth-century_life/20.1miles.html)
His latest publication is a selection of Wilkie Collins' short fiction, The Dream-Woman and Other Stories (London: Everyman, 1998).
