Contributors

Contributors ViviENNE G. MYLNE was Professor of French at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She published critical and bibliographical works on eighteenth-century French fiction, and, at the time of her recent death, was writing a book on dialogue in the French novel from Sorel to Sarraute. John Garrett, Associate Professor of English at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, is the author ?? British Poetry since the Sixteenth Century (1986) and of books on Ann Radcliffe and John Keats. Mark Loveridge is Lecturer in English at the University of Swansea, Wales. He is the author of Laurence Sterne and the Argument about Design (1982), of articles on Sterne, Jane Austen, and Joyce, and is currently working on a study of eighteenth-century fables. Catherine GallouëT-Schutter est chef du département de langues à Hobart and William Smith Colleges où elle enseigne le français. Spécialiste des premiers romans de Marivaux, elle prépare un ouvrage sur l'élaboration de la fiction chez Marivaux. Jocelyn Harris is Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is currently working on the Clarissa project, and on a book about allusion in fiction. Richard C. Hodgson is Associate Professor of French at the University of British Columbia. His primary research interests are in the area of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century French fiction (theory and practice). Marshall Brown is the author of The Shape ofGerman Romanticism, Preromanticism, and essays on the theory of fiction and other topics. David Trott travaille sur le théâtre des xvii" et xviir* siècles, a publié des articles sur les spectacles non officiels, Fuzelier et Marivaux, et a été le coéditeur du recueil L'Age du théâtre en France. Christopher Flint is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and specializes in eighteenth-century fiction and the theory of the novel. Frederik N. Smith is the author oí Language and Reality in Swift's "A Tale ofa Tub" (1979) and editor of and contributor to The Genres of "Gulliver's Travels" (1990). He is currently at work on a new book on Samuel Beckett's use of eighteenth-century writers. Edward Tomarken, Professor of English at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, is the author of Johnson, "Rasselas" and the Choice of Criticism (1989) and Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism (1991). Richard Kroll is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. His books include 77je Material Word: Literate Culture in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century (1991) and Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England, 1640-1700 (1992). David H. Richter, Director of Graduate Studies at Queens College in New York, is the editor of The Critical Tradition and author of Fable's End; he is currently completing The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel and Falling into Theory. Brean Hammond is Rendei Professor of English Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Howard R. Cell teaches philosophy, and occasionally an honours seminar on fairy tales, at Glassboro State College. In addition to an abiding interest in Rousseau studies, he is currently writing a series of essays which link fairy tales and selected philosophical texts. Tara Ghoshal Wallace, Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University , has edited Frances Burney's A Busy Day (1984). She has written on Sir Walter Scott and on Jane Austen and is currently working on a book on Austen and narrative authority. John Stedmond, Professor of English Emeritus at Queen's University, is the author of The Comic Art of Laurence Sterne and co-editor of The Winged Skull: Bicentenary Conference Papers on Laurence Sterne. ...