Contributors

Contributors Juliet McMaster, University Professor ofEnglish at the University ofAlberta, is the author of articles on Sterne and Defoe, and of books on Thackeray, Trollope, Jane Austen, and Dickens. She iscurrently working with a Killam Research Fellowship on a study ofbody and character in eighteenth-century fiction. Raymond Stephanson, Associate Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, teaches Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and English fiction from 1550 to 1 800. He has published essays on Elizabethan fiction and the eighteenth-century novel. At the moment he is working on Pope. Roy S. Wolper, Professor ofEnglish at Temple University, is a co-editor ofthe Scriblerian. He has written on Augustan satirists, on attitudes towards the Jews in eighteenth-century England, and on other Voltairean tales (Candide, Zadig, Le Monde comme il va, Jeannot et Colin). John A. Dussinger is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign . He has also been a visiting professor in England and Scandinavia. Author of The Discourse ofthe Mind in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and ofmany articles and reviews relating to the period from 1660 to 1820, his book In the Pride ofthe Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World will be published by the Ohio State University Press. Maximillian E. Novak, Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the compiler of the Defoe bibliography in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and the author of several books on Defoe. Frederic Deloffre, professeur mérite à l'université de Paris-Sorbonne, est professeur à l'université de Géorgie à Athens, Géorgie. Arnold Ages, Professor of French at the University of Waterloo, is the author ofmore than fiftypapers andmonographs onvarious aspectsofFrench Enlightenmentliterature. His mo¡ * recent book is Jews andJudaism in the Prelude to the French Enlightenment (Sherbrooke: Naaman, 1987). A 1984 winner of the Killam Fellowship, Professor Ages is currently involved in writing a history of the correspondence genre in eighteenth-century France. John A. Fleming is a member of the French Department at the University of Toronto. He is particularly interested in literary theory and the evolution of the French novel from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Lionel Basney teaches English literature and writing at Calvin College. He has published aniclesonJohnson'mEighteenth-CenturyStudies,iheSouthAtlanticQuarterly, EighteenthCentury Life, and other periodicals; an essay on William Cobbett is forthcoming in the Sewanee Review. RichardCohen, Professor ofEnglish at the University ofMaine at Presque Isle, is the author of Literary References and Their Effect upon Characterization in the Novels of Samuel Richardson. He has written papers on Richardson, Smollett, Steme, and Cheyne, and has completed a book to be published in the spring of 1989. Katharine M. Rogers, Research Professor at the American University, Washington, D.C., has written Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England and is a co-editor of The Meridian Anthology ofEarly Women Writers. Bruce Stovel teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature at the University of Alberta. He has published essays on Fielding, Sterne, and Jane Austen. Devendrá P. Varma, Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a world authority on Gothic romance. He is the author ofThe Gothic Flame, and has edited and published TheNorthangerSet ofJaneAusten HorridNovels, the Bicentenary Edition of Radcliffe's Romances, the Arno Series ofRare Gothics, and The Complete Works ofJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Among his several critical works, The Evergreen Tree ofDiabolical Knowledge is a history of the circulating libraries of the eighteenth century and reading vogues of the period. Maureen E. Mulvihill, who is at the Institute for Research in History, New York City, has published essays in Restoration, the Dictionary ofBritish and American Women Writers, British Women Writers, and the Encyclopedia ofContinental Women Writers (forthcoming). She is at work on an old-spelling edition of Female Poems by Ephelia (1679) and a monograph on seventeenth-century interdisciplinary expressions of feminist belief. ...