Contributors

Contributors J. Paul Hunter is Chester D. Tripp Professor at the University ofChicago. His new book, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction, will be published in August, 1990. Kristiaan P. Aercke, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has published on the drama, the novel, and women writers of the seventeenth century and on decadent and Belgian literature. Peter V. Conroy Jr, Professor and Chairman of the French Department at the University of Illinois, Chicago, has published widely on Rousseau, Marivaux, Laclos, and Crébillon fils. He is currently completing a monograph on Montesquieu. Jocelyn Harris is Associate Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She edited Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison, and has published books on Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen. Clive T. Probyn is Professor of English at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. His latest book is English Fiction ofthe Eighteenth Century 1700-1789 (1987), and his next is The Sociable Humanist: The Life and Works ofJames Harris, 1709-80 (1990). Peter Wagner teaches in the English Department of the University of Eichstätt. His publications include a monograph on erotica of the Enlightenment (1988) and critical editions of Cleland's Fanny Hill and Smollett's Launcelot Greaves. J.A. Dainard, Associate Professor ofFrench at the University ofToronto, is general editor of La Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny, and a contributing editor to the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius. Simon Varey teaches English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written about Pope, Swift, Bolingbroke, Fielding, politics, cricket, and food. His most recent book is Space and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. John Stedmond, Professor ofEnglish Emeritus at Queen's University, is the author ofThe Comic Art ofLaurence Sterne and co-editor of The Winged Skull: Bicentenary Conference Papers on Laurence Sterne. Colette V. Michael, Professor of French at Northern Illinois University, is President of the Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française and editor of that society's Bulletin. Her publications include books on Sade and Laclos. Wolfgang Wittkowski, Professor of German at the State University of NewYork, Albany, has written articles on German writers from Lessing to Brecht, on Molière, and on Hemingway, as well as books on F. Hebbel, G. Bücher, and H. v. Kleist. Janet Todd is Professor ofEnglish at the University ofEast Anglia. Her latest book is The Sign ofAngellica: Women, Writing and Fiction 1660-1800 (1989). Patricia Howell Michaelson, currently Assistant Director of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University, is working on a book on elocution and reading aloud in the eighteenth century. Elizabeth Deeds Ermart'h, author of Realism and Consensus in the English Novel (1983) and George Eliot (1985), has just finished a book on anti-realist narrative, Sequel to History: The Crisis ofRealism in Post-Modem Time. Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author mostrecently of Gossip (1985) and ofDesire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century Novels (1990). ...