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Contributors Peggy Thompson is an Associate Professor of English at Agnes Scott College. She has published several articles on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, as well as on the theoretical relationships between comedy and Christianity. Éric Bordas est maître de conférences à l'Université Michel-de-Montaigne (Bordeaux 3), où il enseigne la linguistique et la stylistique françaises. Ses travaux portent sur renonciation romanesque (période 1780-1850). Il est l'auteur de Balzac, discours et détours. Pour une stylistique de renonciation romanesque (1977), ainsi que de plusieurs articles. Lorna Berman, now retired, taught French at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published several articles and a book on the marquis de Sade. Sara Salih is Visiting Lecturer at Wadham College, Oxford. Nora Nachumi is completing her PhD dissertation, "Acting Like a Lady," at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The project explores the influence of the theatre on late eighteenth-century British women novelists. Other work includes an article on Jane Austen films. Juliet McMaster is the author of books on Jane Austen, Thackeray, Trollope, and Dickens , and of many articles on the eighteenth and nineteenth-century novel. She recently co-edited, with Edward Copeland, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Her major work in the eighteenth century has been on the body, and she is currently completing a study tentatively titled The Body Legible in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. She is a University Professor of English at the University of Alberta, and General Editor of the Juvenilia Press. Ros Ballaster is Fellow in English Literature at Mansfield College, Oxford University. She is author of Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction 1684-1740 (1992). She has edited Delarivier Manley's The New Atalantis and Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. She is currently working on a book discussing representations of the Orient in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century satirical writing. Trevor Ross is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University, and the author of The Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century (1998). Deborah Ross is Professor of English at Hawaii Pacific University and author of several studies of eighteenth-century women novelists, including The Excellence ofFalsehood: Romance, Realism, and Women's Contribution to the Novel (1991). Her recent research interests include female narrative in Disney films and television soap operas. Karen Valihora teaches English at York University. She is currently finishing her PhD dissertation at Yale University on "The Genealogy of Common Sense," a study of eighteenth-century moral philosophy and aesthetics. Brigitte Glaser teaches English at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Germany. Her areas of research are the eighteenth-century novel and, more recently, autobiographical forms of writing in the seventeenth century. Her publications include 7"Ae Body in Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa": Contexts ofand Contradictions in the Development of Character (1994). Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author, most recently, of Boredom: The Literary History ofa State ofMind, is now writing a book on eighteenth-century responses to the idea of privacy. Alison Conway, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, is currently completing a study of portraiture and the novel in eighteenth-century England. She is author of articles on Charlotte Smith, Henry Fielding, and eighteenth-century genre criticism. Robert Mahony is Associate Professor of English at The Catholic University of America , where he directed the Center for Irish Studies between 1983 and 1997. He is the author of studies of Christopher Smart (with B.W. Rizzo) and of Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity (1995). Madeleine Dobie teaches French at Tulane University, and has published articles on Charrière, Graffigny, Montesquieu, Marivaux, and Chateaubriand. Mary Waldron is the author of Ladilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The life and Writings ofAnn Yearsley, 1753-1806 (1996). Her next book, Jane Austen and the Fiction ofHer Time, will be published in 1999. ...

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