Contributors

Contributors Virginia H. Aksan, Assistant Professor of History at McMaster University, specializes in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire, and is currently engaged in a study of the 1768-74 Russo-Turkish War. Geoffrey M. Sill is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University in Camden. The author of Defoe and the Idea ofFiction, he is working on a book about the role of the passions in eighteenth-century fiction. P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens are the authors of The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe (1988). They are now at work on the Defoe entry for the forthcoming new edition of The Cambridge Bibliography ofEnglish Literature. Jean Terrasse, professeur de littérature française à l'Université McGiIl, est l'auteur de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et la Quête d'or, Le Mal du siècle et l'ordre immuable, Rhétorique de l'essai littéraire, Le Sens et les signes. Etude sur le théâtre de Marivaux, et de nombreux articles sur le XVIIIe siècle. Mary Waldron is interested in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century women's writing. She has recently completed a book-length study of Ann Yearsley, milkwoman and poet of Bristol (1753-1806), and is working on Hannah More's didactic writing. Joseph Wiesenfarth is Hands-Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin , Madison. He has written monographs on Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Henry James and, most recently, Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel (1988). He is now at work on a study of Ford Madox Ford and Modernism. English Showalter, Professor n of French at Rutgers University, Camden, is one of the editors of the Graffigny correspondence and the author of several works on eighteenthcentury French fiction. Anne Richardot, après une maîtrise à l'université de Paris, Sorbonne, poursuit actuelle- ment ses études de doctorat à l'université Brown. Elle s'intéresse aux philosophes et aux romanciers "libertins." Brigitte Glaser teaches English literature at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany. Her current research interests are in the field of seventeenth-century prose literature. 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 is currently working on a study of the anatomy of the heart in seventeenth and eighteenth-century narrative. Robert W. Uphaus is Professor of English at Michigan State University and Director of Colleagues Press. Michael M. Boardman is Professor of English at Tulane University and has recently published Narrative Innovation and Incoherence: Ideology in Defoe, Goldsmith, Austen, Eliot, and Hemingway. 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 (1991), and is now completing a book on rationalization and critical consciousness in the French Enlightenment . Peter V. Conroy, Jr is Professor of French at the University of Illinois, Chicago. In addition to monographs on Crébillon fils and Laclos (Intimate, Intrusive, and Triumphant: Readers in the "Liaisons dangereuses," 1987), he has recently published Montesquieu Revisited (1992). Mrrzi Myers has written extensively on late-eighteenth-century children's literature and on women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Hanah More, and Maria Edgeworth. She teaches writing and children's and adolescent literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has a book in progress, "Romancing the Family: Maria Edgeworth and the Scene of Instruction." Jacqueline Reid-Walsh teaches Women's Studies and Children's Literature in the Faculty of Education at McGiIl University, and has a seven-year-old daughter, Krista. Elizabeth W. Harries teaches English and Comparative Literature at Smith College. Her book The Unfinished Manner: Essays on the Fragment in the Later Eighteenth Century will appear in May 1994. She is at work on a study of fairy tales written by women in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ...