Contributors to Volume 27

Contributors to Volume 27 Beate Allert teaches German and Comparative Literature at Purdue University . She is author of Die Metapher und ihre Krise: Zur Dynamik der "Bilderschrift " Jean Pauls (1987), has edited and introduced Languages of Visuality: Crossings between Science, Art, Politics, and Literature (1996), and has written on Lessing, Schiller, Novalis, Eco, and others. Her essay is derived from a paper presented at the 1995 International Congress on the Enlightenment in Munster. Theodore E. D. Braun is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware. He has published extensively on Voltaire, including critical editions of Alzire and of several Encyclopédie articles, and articles on Voltaire's contes and theater. He has also published extensively on Le Franc de Pompignan and on Diderot. Gregory S. Brown earned his doctorate from Columbia University. He is cunently an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is working on a book manuscript, from which this article is drawn. Rebecca E. Connor is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wesleyan University. James Dillon earned his doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. He teaches English and American studies at Des Moines Area Community College and Grinnell College. He is at work on a book on the novel, education, and nationalism in the United States before 1815. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein is Professor Emérita at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she was for many years the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History. Among her best known books are The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979), The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe ( 1983), and Grub Street Abroad ( 1992). She is cunently working on a study of Western attitudes toward printing. 385 386 / Contributors Diane Fourny is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She has published articles on Rousseau, Diderot, Graffigny, and Rétif de la Bretonne. Susan Lamb completed her dissertation in 1997 at the University of Toronto. She is cunently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, where she is working on a study of the reciprocities between the Restoration and eighteenth-century theater, dramatic works, and contemporary tourism. She is also editing Elizabeth Simcoe's Canadian journals (1791-1796) for the University of Toronto Press. A version of this essay was presented at the 1995 NEASECS Conference, Ottawa, Canada. Alan T. McKenzie is Professor of English at Purdue University. He has published on the passions, various conespondences, Edmund Burke, Lord Chesterfield, Henry Fielding, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hobbes, and Samuel Johnson, among others. Ann T. McKenzie is an X-ray crystallographer in the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University and a consultant in solidstate chemistry to the pharmaceutical industry. Richard Morton is Professor Emeritus at McMaster University. He is currently working on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century translations of the Latin classics into English. Geoffrey Plank is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati . He received a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1994, where he worked with Professor John Murrin. The title of his dissertation is "The Culture of Conquest : The British Colonists and Nova Scotia, 1690-1759." He has published articles in Acadiensis and Semiotics and the Human Sciences. Richard Quaintance teaches satire and the eighteenth-century English novel at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is completing a book on the political resonances of English landscaping and its lore. Julie Rak is cunently in the third year of her doctoral program at McMaster University, working on a thesis about autobiography and the migration of Russian-speaking people to Canada. She has previously published work about Bakhtin and feminism in The Bakhtin Newsletter and about William Kurelek and autobiography in Mosaic. Contributors / 387 Raymond Stephanson is Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. He is cunently writing a book about Pope and the discourses of male literary communities, 1650-1750. Charlotte Sussman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has published articles on Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and on women in the British abolitionist movement . Philip Woodfine is...