Contributors

Contributors Marie-France Silver est professeur de littérature française au Collège Glendon de l'Université York. KiM Ian Michasiw teaches English at York University. He is working on a study involving picturesque aesthetics and the lived picaresque of the Baron d'Hancarville. Rhonda Batchelor is a graduate student at the University of Alberta. Her interests are in the constructions of women and work in Victorian literature, and in the representation of the feminine in eighteenth-century fiction. Gary Kelly is Professor of English at the University of Keele, England. His recent books include an edition ofMary Wollstonecraft's novels, English Fiction ofthe Romantic Period (1989), Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecrafi (1992), and Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827 (1993). He is the General Editor of Longman's History of Women's Writing in English. G.J. Barker-Benfield, Professor of History and Women's Studies at the State University of New York at Albany, is author of The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes towards Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America (1976), The Culture ofSensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1992), and co-editor of Portraits ofAmerican Women: European Settlement to the Present (1991). He is currently working on sensibility in American history. Jennifer Birkett is Professor of French Studies at the University of Birmingham, England . She has written on Genlis, Laclos, and Restif de la Bretonne and is currently writing a study of sexuality, politics, and fiction in the French Revolution. Syndy McMillen Conger, Professor of English at Western Illinois University, is author of the forthcoming Mary Wollstonecrafi and the Language ofSensibility. Cynthia Wall is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She has published articles on Pope, Defoe, and the gendering of domestic space, and she is currently working on a book about the changing perceptions of space in London after the Fire. Vivien Jones, Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds, is the editor of Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions ofFemininity (1990). She has published books on Jane Austen and Henry James and articles on women's writing in the 1790s. David H. Richter, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Queens College in New York, is editor of The Critical Tradition and author of Fable's End, Falling into Theory, and the forthcoming The Progress ofRomance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel. ...