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Stephen Bending is a Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in the English Department at the University of Southampton. He is currently completing a monograph entitled 'Pleasure Gardens: Problems in Pleasure in Britain, France, and North America from 1650 to 1830'. Bending is also co-editing a collection of essays on Nature for the Bloomsbury Cultural History series and a series on women's writing for Chawton House Library. His academic background includes completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge, and he has held various teaching positions at Dundee, Leeds, and Southampton, alongside research fellowships at prestigious institutions such as Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Melbourne, and the Huntington Library in California. His research interests prominently feature eighteenth-century literature, culture, garden history, and landscape studies.