Contributors

Contributors W.B. Carnochan is Richard W. Lyman Professor of the Humanities emeritus at Stanford University. Max Byrd's new historical novel Grant—about U.S. Grant and Henry Adams—will be published in the summer of 2000. Michael Seidel teaches at Columbia University and has written extensively on narrative from the ancient epic to the modern novel. He is an associate editor for the early volumes of the new Works ofDaniel Defoe edition just beginning to be published. Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel (1964), Fielding and the Nature of the Novel (1964), and Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre (1975). His most recent book is The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel (1999). J. Paul Hunter is the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor and Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is also Senior Advisor for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and General Editor of the Bedford Cultural Editions series. Long ago, he wrote a book about Defoe, The Reluctant Pilgrim (1966); his latest book, Before Novels (1990), won the Gottschalk Prize. Maximillian E. Novak has written widely on Defoe and early fiction. His biography of Defoe is scheduled to appear next year. He has co-edited a collection of essays on sensibility, Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility, and an edition of Defoe's Consolidator, both scheduled for publication in 2000. Michael Mckeon teaches English literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Politics and Poetry in Restoration England (1975) and The Origins ofthe English Novel, 1600-1740 (1987), and editor of a forthcoming anthology of the theory of the novel. Robert Mayer is Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, where he teaches eighteenth-century British literature, and film. He is the author of History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (1997) as well as articles on Smollett, Scott, and early modern historiography. He is currently preparing The Eighteenth-Century Novel on Screen. J.A. Downie, Pro-Warden (Academic) and Professor of English at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, is working on a book called The Making of the English Novel. His most recent book is Constructing Christopher Marlowe, edited with J.T Parnell. John Richetti is A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Department. His most recent book is The English Novel in History: 1700-1780 (1999). DEIDRE Lynch is the author of The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (1998), which was named the winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book. She has just finished editing an anthology entitled Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees, forthcoming. Everett Zimmerman is Professor of English and Provost of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel (1996). William Beatty Warner, Professor of English at the University of Callifornia, Santa Barbara, works in the following fields: the Enlightenment; the novel, the history of media culture from the eighteenth century to the present; and free speech and censorship. His most recent book is Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading, 16841750 . Janet Todd has worked in Africa, the United States, and England, and is currently Professor of English at the University of East Anglia. She has written many books on women writers, the most recent being two biographies. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn (1996) and The Revolutionary Life ofMary Wollstonecraft (2000). Margaret Anne Doody is John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature, University of Notre Dame. Her most recent full-length book is The True Story of the Novel (1966). She is currently writing a book on Apuleius. Robert Folkenflik, Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, has published books on narrative (autobiography, biography) and essays on the fiction of Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Johnson, and on the novel more generally...