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Contributors Jacques Cormier est professeur de littérature à l'Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. Il a préparé, avec Frédéric Deloffre, une édition critique des Illustres Françaises et, avec Michèle Weil, une édition critique de la Continuation de l'histoire de l'admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche. Wendy Jones is the author of articles on Matthew Lewis and on Anthony Trollope. She is working on a manuscript about the ideology of love in the English novel. Auson Conway, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, is working on a study of portraiture, spectatatorship, and the eighteenth-century English novel. Jux Heydt-Stevenson, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is associate editor of Late Poems of William Wordsworth: 1820-1850 (forthcoming). Jerry C. Beasley, Professor of English at the University of Delaware, is the author or editor of five books on eighteenth-century literary subjects, including Novels ofthe 1740s (1982). He presently serves as General Editor of The Works of Tobias Smollett. Lois A. Chaber, who has taught at SUNY-Albany and at universities in Iran and Qatar, has published articles on various eighteenth-century novelists, and is currently engaged in a reader-response analysis of Sir Charles Grandison. Paula R. Backscheider is Pepperell Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. She is author of Daniel Defoe: His Life, and other books and articles on Defoe. Her most recent book is SpectacularPolitics: TheatricalPolitics andMass Culture in Early Modern England (1993). Hope D. Cotton is a graduate student at Auburn University working in the eighteenth century. Sungkyu Cho and Sung-Kyoon Kim are in the Department of English of Yonsei University , Seoul, Korea; Minoru Oda is in the English Department, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan; and Huang Xian-fang is in the English Department, Guangdong Economic Management, Cadre Institute, Guangzhou, China. Marshall Brown teaches at the University of Washington. His publications include The Shape of German Romanticism, Preromanticism, and the forthcoming Turning Points, a collection of essays on the history of cultural expressions. Katherine Quinsey, Associate Professor of English at the University of Windsor, has published widely on seventeenth and eighteenth-century topics. She is editor of Broken Boundaries: Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama (forthcoming), and is working on a biographical, textual, and bibliographical study, Tempting Grace: The Religious Imagination ofAlexander Pope. Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English and Department Chair at University of Virginia. Her most recent book is Boredom: The Literary History ofa State of Mind and she is currently writing a study of sensibility and self-love in the eighteenth century. David C. Hensley teaches English at McGiIl University. As a contributing editor of The Clarissa Project, he is working on nineteenth-century responses to Richardson, particularly Richardson's relationship to the development of Anglo-German romanticism. Ian Campbell Ross is Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin and Senior Lecturer in English. His work on early Irish fiction includes "Fiction to 1800" in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991); he co-edits Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr. Paul Alkon, Leo S. Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California and a Past President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, is author of Samuel Johnson andMoral Discipline, Defoe and Fictional Time, Origins ofFuturistic Fiction, and Science Fiction before 1900: Imagination Discovers Technology. Stephen E. Soud, a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida, is currently working on a study of monetary theory and English literature in the early eighteenth century. Charles A. Knight, who teaches English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, has recently published Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: A Reference Guide (1994). He has written extensively on Fielding and other eighteenth-century novelists and is working on a book on satire. Hugh Amory is the textual editor ofthe Wesleyan edition of the Works of Henry Fielding. Robert Mayer, Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, is the author of Matters ofFact: History, Defoe, and the Novel (forthcoming). Janice Farrar Thaddeus has recently published two articles on Elizabeth Hamilton and is currently working on a book entitled Frances Burney: A Literary Life. David...

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