Michael Sanders is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History (2009), the co-editor (with Prof. David Matthews) of Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2021). Over a 20+ career in Victorian studies he has published; numerous articles across a range of refereed journals including, Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Periodicals Review and the Journal of Victorian Culture, over a dozen book chapters, and edited the series Women and Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century (2001) and The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli Volume One: Vivian Grey (2004). Most of his publications have focused on the intersection between working-class literature and culture and radical politics in the nineteenth century.