Contributors

Contributors Michael Seidel is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University . He has written extensively on satire and on fiction from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. William Ray teaches at Reed College, Portland, Oregon. He is author of Literary Meaning : From Phenomenology to Deconstruction, and Story and History: Narrative Authority and Social Identity in the Eighteenth-Century French and English Novel, and is currently working on the development of the idea of culture. Catherine Craft-Fairchild, Associate Professor of English at the University of St Thomas in Minnesota, is the author of several studies of masquerade and cross-dressing, among them Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in EighteenthCentury Fictions by Women (1993). Michael Cohen teaches in the English Department at Murray State University in western Kentucky. His most recent book is Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-Century British Novels and Paintings (1995). He is working on a book about mystery and detective fiction. Frank Palmeri is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami, and author of Satire in Narrative (1990). Alan T. McKenzie is Professor of English at Purdue University and the author of, among other things, Certain Lively Episodes: The Articulation ofPassion in Eighteenth-Century Prose (1990). Robert A. Erickson teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is coeditor (with Alan W. Bower) of Arbuthnot's The History ofJohn Bull, and the author of Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne) (1986). His most recent book is The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750, a study of the representation of the heart in the Bible, and the works of Harvey, Milton, Behn, and Richardson. John A. Fleming is a member of the French Department at the University of Toronto with a particular interest in the eighteenth-century French novel. Lois A. Chaber is an independent scholar in London who has taught previously at SUNY-Albany, Damavand College in Tehran, the University of Qatar, and the American College in London. She has published articles on Richardson and other eighteenth-century novelists. Her latest work on Richardson appears in the recent collection New Essays on Samuel Richardson. Robert James Merrett, Associate Dean for External Affairs in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, is currently researching in the area of French-English cultural relatons in the period from 1730 to 1789. His recent articles concern the economic contexts of comparative literary history. Malinda Snow teaches courses in eighteenth-century literature at Georgia State University ; her publications include articles on Defoe and on Fielding. Uta Janssens is Senior Lecturer in English literature at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands ; her publications in the field of eighteenth-century studies include books on literary journalism and autobiographical writing. Peter Sabor, Professor of English at Laval University, is co-ordinator of the 1998 jasna conference, to be held in Quebec City in October 1998. His edition of Sarah Fielding's The Adventures ofDavid Simple will appear shortly. ...