John Rignall,John Rignall is Reader Emeritus in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. His publications include Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (1992), George Eliot, European Novelist (2011), and, as editor, George Eliot and Europe (1997), the Everyman Paperback edition of Daniel Deronda (1999), The Oxford Reader’s Companion to George Eliot (2000) and, with H. Gustav Klaus, Ecology and the Literature of the British Left (2012). He is also co-editor of the George Eliot Review.