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Contributors Richard Gooding, who teaches English at Okanagan University College, is working on the influence of David Hume's theory of the sentiments on mid-eighteenth-century novelists. John B. Pierce is Assistant Professor of English at Queen's University, specializing in Romantic literature and eighteenth-century fiction. He has published articles on Blake and on Shelley. Michael Rosenblum, Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, is the author of essays on Pope, Swift, Sterne, Smollett, and Nabokov. He is currently writing about Jane Austen and about Nabokov. Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles, is author of a book-length study of Aesop and Aesopian fables in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England, and is now writing a book about the figure of Mary Stuart in Britain from 1542 to 1918. Michael J. Call is a member of the faculty of the Department of Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, Provo. He is the author of Back to the Garden: Chateaubriand, Senancour and Constant and is currently working on a study of First Empire women novelists. Patricia C. Brückmann, Professor of English at Trinity College, University of Toronto, has published essays on Pope, Swift, the Scriblerus Club, Richardson, Fielding, Austen, and Nabokov. Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard is Associate Professor of French at the University of Arizona. She is author of Libertinage et utopies sous le règne de Louis XIV (1989), the co-editor (with N. Smith) of Utopian Studies IV (1991), and (with P. Fitting) of the December issue of L'Esprit Créateur—L'Imaginaire utopique: Paradigmes, formes etfonctions. Maria Joäo BrilhaNte enseigne littérature et culture françaises et théorie de la traduction à la Faculté des Lettres de Lisbonne où elle est également co-responsable du Centre d'Études de Théâtre. William Acher est l'auteur de Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrivain de l'amitié, préface de Jean Fabre (1971), de Jean-Jacques Rousseau créateur et l'anamorphose d'Apollon (1980), et de diverses études. Albert J. Rivero, Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, is the author of The Plays of Henry Fielding: A Critical Study of His Dramatic Career (1989). He is working on a book tentatively titled Duplicitous Representations: Fashioning Fiction from Behn to Burney, and editing Augustan Subjects, a collection of essays on eighteenthcentury topics, as well as a collection of new essays on Samuel Richardson. Mary Waldron teaches part-time for the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Essex; her research is mainly concerned with women writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in particular Ann Yearsley, Hannah More, and Jane Austen. ...

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