Gregory F. Tague is a professor of literary studies and founder and senior developer of The Evolutionary Studies Collaborative at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, New York. His work leans toward reader-response ethical criticism and the history of ideas by examining major English novels from the years 1720 to 1930 and, more specifically, falls in line with evolutionary cultural studies. His previous books include Character and Consciousness: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence (2005) and Ethos and Behavior: The English Novel from Jane Austen to Henry James (2008).