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  • Contributors

Robert A. Erickson, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1986) and co-editor of Arbuthnot's The History of John Bull (1976). He is currently working on a study of the anatomy of the heart in seventeenth and eighteenth-century narrative.

Elizabeth W. Harries, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Smith College, has published articles on James Hogg and Sterne, and is currently gathering up the ruinous fragments of a book on eighteenth-century ruins and fragments.

John A. Dussinger, Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author of The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1974), In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World (1990), and of articles and reviews on writers ranging from the Third Earl of Shaftesbury to Mary Shelley. The present essay is related to his research for the facsimile edition of Richardson's Collection of Moral Sentiments, vol. 11 of the Clarissa Project.

Robert Folkenflik, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, has published books and editions on eighteenth-century literature. His The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation will appear this year.

Alan J. Singerman, Professor of French at Davidson College in North Carolina, is the author of L'Abbé Prévost: l'amour et la morale (1987) and a critical edition of Prévost's Histoire d'une Grecque moderne (1990). He is currently engaged in research on several film adaptations of Choderlos de Laclos's epistolary novel, Les Liaisons dangereuses.

Jean H. Hagstrum is John C. Shaffer Professor Emeritus of English and the Humanities at Northwestern University. Among many books, he is the author of The Sister Arts, Sex and Sensibility, and, most recently, Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare.

Lois A. Chaber, who has taught English at the State University of New York, Albany, and at Qatar University on the Arabian Gulf, is currently an independent scholar in London. She has published various essays on eighteenth-century fiction and is at work on Richardson's portrayal of childbearing.

Julie C. Hayes, Associate Professor of French at the University of Richmond, is the author of Identity and Ideology: Diderot, Sade, and the Serious Genre, and is currently interested in systematization and categorization in Enlightenment discourse.

Jane Millgate is the author of Walter Scott: The Making of the Novelist (1984) and Scott's Last Edition: A Study in Publishing History (1987).

Jean Sgard est professeur à l'Université Stendhal de Grenoble. Il a publié plusieurs ouvrages sur l'abbé Prévost, et donné une édition de ses œuvres. Spécialiste de la presse classique, il achève actuellement un Dictionnaire des journaux (1600-1789).

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