Seth Whidden is Associate Professor of French at Villanova University, USA, an affiliated member of the LIRE research group of the CNRS (UMR 5611), and editor of Nineteenth-Century French Studies. His previous publications include Leaving Parnassus: The Lyric Subject in Verlaine and Rimbaud (2007) and the edited volumes La poésie jubilatoire: Rimbaud, Verlaine et l'Album zutique (2010) and Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Several Authors, One Pen (2009).