Contributors

Contributors Robert James Merrett, Professor of English at the University of Alberta, is the author of Daniel Defoe's Moral and Rhetorical Ideas. He has written on Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, E.M. Forster, and modern Canadian poetry and is currently finishing a second book on Defoe. Jonathan Lamb, Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, is currently working on Job and the theme of consolation in eighteenth-century literature and art. His Sterne's Fiction and the Double Principle will be published later this year by the Cambridge University Press. D.J. Adams is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Manchester. His most recent book is Diderot, Dialogue and Debate (1986). He has just completed a Bibliographie descriptive d'ouvragesfrançais enforme de dialogue 1700-1750, and is currently preparing a bibliography of editions of Diderot published between 1740 and 1900. Gary Kelly, Professor of English at the University of Alberta, has recently completed English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830, which will appear early in 1989. He is now working on a study of Mary Wollstonecraft and Romantic Feminism. Brean Hammond, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, is author of Pope and Bolingbroke: A Study in Friendship and Influence (University of Missouri Press, 1984) and oí Pope in the Harvester New Readings series (1986). His most recent book is a study of Gulliver's Travels. He is General Editor of the British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Michael Cardy is Professor of French at Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario. He has published a book and a number of articles on eighteenth-century literary ideas. Patrick Brady holds the Shumway Chair of Excellence in Romance Languages at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a specialist in the evolution of the novel from Mme de Lafayette to Lucette Desvignes, in the relationship between the arts (Rococo, Impressionism), and in contemporary literary theory. Mary Ann O'Donnell, Associate Professor of English at Manhattan College, is Associate Editor ofLiterary Research (formerly Literary Research Newsletter). Her works on Aphra Behn include Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography ofPrimary and Secondary Sources (Garland, 1986), a chapter in Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century (ed. K. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, forthcoming), and an article on Aphra Behn's commonplace book (English Manuscript Studies, forthcoming). Raymond Joly , Professeur à l'Université Laval, Québec, est auteur de Deux études sur la préhistoire du réalisme: Diderot, Rétif de la Bretonne (Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval; Munich: Fink, 1969) et d'articles sur Diderot, Marivaux, Prévost et Richard Wagner , le plus souvent d'orientation psychanalytique. Joan I. Schwarz teaches in the Integrated Liberal Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin and is a practising attorney. She has published on rhetorical strategies in Oliver Wendell Holmes's "The Path of the Law" and is currently completing a dissertation on Eighteenth-Century Civil and Criminal Law in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. Adrienne D. Hytier is Lichtenstein-Dale Professor of French at Vassar College. She has been Editor for French Literature of The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography since 1970 (14 volumes published to date). She is also author of Two Years of French Foreign Policy: Vichy 1940-1942, Les Dépêches diplomatiques du Comte de Gobineau en Perse, La Guerre, and numerous articles and reviews in various journals and publications. Monique Moser-Verrey enseigne les littératures allemande et française à l'Université Laval. Elle est l'auteure d'une thèse comparatiste, Dualité et continuité du discours narratif dans "Don Sylvio," "Joseph Andrews" et "Jacques le Fataliste" (Berne: Peter Lang, 1976) ainsi que de nombreux articles portant sur le roman et le théâtre au dixhuiti ème siècle. Plus récemment elle s'est intéressée aux littératures de la Francophonie et à l'écriture des femmes. Roland Le Huenen, Professor of French at the University of Toronto, currently holds the Jones Chair at SUNY in Buffalo. He is the co-author of Balzac, sémiotique du personnage romanesque (1980), Contes, récits et légendes des ties Saint-Pierre et Miquelon (1985)—Prix France-Acadie 1986—and is...