Mark AsquithMark Asquith is the author of Reading the Novels of John Williams: A Flaw of Light (2018); The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx’s Short Stories (Bloomsbury, 2014); Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain and Poscards: A Readers’ Guide (Bloomsbury, 2009); and Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music (2005) in addition to numerous articles on 19th-century English and contemporary American literature. He holds a PhD from UCL, the University of London, UK. Read More Read Less