Karl Leydecker has been Vice-Principal Learning and Teaching and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Dundee in Scotland since 2013. Before that he was Dean of Humanities at the University of Kent, UK. His research interests include marriage and divorce in western literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Jenny DiPlacidi is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Romanticism at the University of Kent, UK. Her research interests include representations of incest, sexuality and gender in British and American literature of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with a focus on the Gothic and magazine fiction. 

1. Jenny DiPlacidi: After Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century: Introduction.- 2. Rebecca Probert: Undoing the Marriage: the Resort to Annulment.- 3. Joanne Begiato: Bearing Grudges: Marital Conflict and the Inter-Generational Family.- 4.James Fowler: Handsome, Gallant, Gentle, Rich: Before and After Marriage in the Tales of Charles Perrault.- 5.Robin Runia: Knights of Matrimony, Christian Duty andMillenium Hall.-6. Jennie Batchelor: Be but a little deaf and blind,/ And happiness youll surely find: Marriage in the Womens Magazine.- 7.Heather Carroll: The Making and Breaking of Wedlock: Visualising Jane, Duchess of Gordonafter marriage'.- 8. Jenny DiPlacidi: Rearticulating the Economics of Exchange: Incest and After Marriage in the Gothic.- 9. Chris Roulston: Marriage and Its Queer Identification in the Anne Lister Diaries.