Contributors

Contributors Claude Labrosse est maître de conférences honoraire à l'Université Lyon n. Il est auteur de Lire au xvilf siècle: "La Nouvelle Héloïse" et ses lecteurs, de nombreux articles sur Crébillon fils, Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, sur les périodiques littéraires et les gazettes politiques. Beth Swan is tutor in English Literature at the University of Wales, Swansea. She has published several articles on eighteenth-century fiction and law and has recently completed a book entitled Fictions ofLaw (1997). She is currently writing on narrative representations of socio-legal issues in the work of Jane Austen and her contemporaries. Margaret Anne Doody, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is the author of A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels ofSamuel Richardson, as well as of numerous articles on Richardson. Her interests include religious writing; she is currently working on a study of Apuleius, which has turned her interest towards Gnosticism and Hermeticism and their history. She is also working on a book-length project on hymns and sacred song. Paula R. Backscheider is Pepperell Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. She is author of several books, including Daniel Defoe: His Life, which won the British Council Prize for 1990, and Spectacular Politics, and has published many articles. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Guggenheim Fellow, she is at work on a book on the competition between the novel and drama. Irène Águila Solana est Professeur en titre de littérature française à la Faculté des Lettres, Université de Saragosse, Espagne. Son domaine de recherches comprend le conte et le récit, la narrativité, la dramaturgie erotique et libertine, et le comique dans la littérature du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècle. H. George Hahn's books include The Country Myth: Motifs in the British Novel from Defoe to Smollett, The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and Its Background (with Carl Behm), and Henry Fielding: An Annotated Bibliography. Mererid Puw Davies is a Junior Research Fellow in German Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, and her interests lie in the field of fairy tales. Ernest Sturm is an attorney and Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His latest works on Crébillon fils include an edition of his Œuvres (1992) and Crébillon ou la science du désir (1975). Brean S. Hammond is Rendei Professor of English and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Michelle Burnham is Assistant Professor of English at Santa Clara University, and the author of the recently published Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature, 1682-1861. Erik Leborgne est maître de conférences à l'Université de Paris m (Sorbonne Nouvelle). Auteur de plusieurs travaux sur Prévost, une bibliographie (1996) et une édition des Mémoires d'un honnête homme (1998), il prépare une édition des dialogues Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques. Nicholas Hudson, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, is the author of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought (1988), Writing and European Thought (1994), and numerous essays on eighteenth-century literature and thought. Michael O'dea is author oí Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Music, Illusion, and Desire (1995). ...