Contributors

Contributors Frédéric Deloffre. professeur emerite à l'université de Paris—Sorbonne, est professeur à l'université de Géorgie à Athens, Géorgie. Il est l'auteur de nombreux livres et articles sur la littérature française (Guilleragues, Challe, Marivaux, abbé Prévost, Piron, Voltaire) et sur la langue française (La Phrase française, Le Vers français. Poétique et Stylistique françaises. Eléments de Linguistiquefrançaise etc.) Robert A. Erickson, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author oíMother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1986) and co-editor of Arbuthnot's The History ofJohn Bull (1976). He is currently working on a study of the anatomy of the heart in seventeenth and eighteenth-century narrative, including the Bible, Milton, Bunyan, and Richardson. Marie-Hélène Chabut is Assistant Professor at Lehigh University. She has published articles on Diderot and on Sterne, and she is working on a book about the "aesthetics of ex-centricity" in Diderot. Richard G. Hodgson, Associate Professor of French at the University of British Columbia, is the author ofa number ofarticles on seventeenth-century French narrative fiction and on me contemporary novel in Québec. He recently co-edited an issue of Oeuvres et Critiques devoted to the critical reception ofcontemporary Québec fiction since 1960. Raymond Stephanson, Associate Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, teaches Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and English fiction from 1550 to 1800. He has published essays on Elizabethan fiction and the eighteenth-century novel. At the moment he is working on Pope. Olga B. Cragg teaches French at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of publications on Marivaux and the editor of Mme Riccoboni's novel, Histoire de M. de Cressy (forthcoming with Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century). She is currently working on an edition ofLettres de MylordRivers, also by Mme Riccoboni. Roseann Runte, Professor of French and Principal of Glendon College, York University, is the editor of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (vols. 7, 8, 9). She is presently working on the myth ofPsyche in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Glen Campbell, Professor of French at the University of Calgary, has published on the picaresque novels of Alain-René Lesage. His most recent book is Volume 4 of The CollectedWritings ofLouisRiel (1985). Marie-France Silver, professeure agrégée au Collège Glendon (de l'Université York), est l'auteure d'Echos du Canadafrançais (1984). Elle a publié des articles sur la presse au XVIJT siècle, et sur le roman de l'époque révolutionnaire. Elle prépare un recueil de correspondance et une anthologie d'auteures du XVIIIe siècle. Lois A. Chaber, who has taught English at the State University of New York—Albany and at Qatar University on the Arabian GuJf, is currently an independent scholar in London. She has published various essays on eighteenth-century fiction and is at work on Richardson's portrayal ofpregnancy. Elizabeth Brophy is Professor of English at the College of New Rochelle. Her most recent book is SamuelRichardson in the Twayne English Authors Series. Nancy Senior. Professor of French at the University of Saskatchewan, has written on Voltaire, Rousseau, and education in the eighteenth century, and is now working on the teaching ofreading. John Richetti is the Leonard Sugarman Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is a Twayne series volume on Defoe, and he is currently at work on a book about the novel and social change in the eighteenth century in Britain. Antony Hammond, Professor of English at McMaster University, is Textual Editor of the forthcoming Cambridge edition ofthe Works ofJohn Webster, and has written extensively on bibliographical and textual subjects. Currently he is active in computer-assisted research. Aubrey Rosenberg is Professor of French at the University of Toronto. His most recent book is Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Providence (1987). Douglas Duncan, Professor of English at McMaster University, is author of Thomas Ruddiman: A Study in Scottish Scholarship of the Early Eighteenth Century and Ben Jonson and the Lucianic Tradition. He is preparing an edition for the Scottish...