Contributors

Contributors Sylvie Romanowski, professeur associé de français à l'Université Northwestern, est l'auteur de L'illusion chez Descartes: la structure du discours cartésien (1974), et elle travaille sur le théâtre et le roman des dix-septième et dix-huitième siècles. Douglas Murray, a member of the Department of Literature and Language at Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee has published essays on Dryden, Bunyan, Defoe, Swift, and the English art song. Robert L. Chibka is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. His first novel, A SlightLapse, appeared in 1990. He has also published articles on works by Henry Fielding, Aphra Behn, Edward Young, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Peter Sabor, Professor ofEnglish at Queen's University, is the authorofHorace Walpole: A Reference Guide, Horace Walpole: The Critical Heritage, and editions of Richardson's Pamela, Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and (in collaboration) Carlyle's SartorResartus, and Burney's Cecilia and The Wanderer. He has coedited, with Margaret Anne Doody, Samuel Richardson: Tercentenary Essays. Thomas R. Cleary teaches English at the University of Victoria. His publications include Henry Fielding: Political Writer (1984). Robert D. Spector, Professor of English and Co-ordinator of Humanities at Long Island University, has published extensively on the eighteenth century, particular the works of Tobias Smollet. Patrick Coleman is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Rousseau's Political Imagination (1984) and is currently completing a book on the French novel from 1730 to 1830. George E. Haggerty is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside; his Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form appeared last year, and he is now completing a study of the language of sensibility in the late eighteenth century. Catherine N. Parke, Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Missouri, is currently at work on a study of the historical fiction of Janet Lewis. Bernard Beugnot, professeur titulaire et directeur du département d'études françaises à l'Université de Montréal, est spécialiste de la littérature du XVIIe siècle. Paul Alkon, Leo S. Bing Professor ofEnglish at the University ofSouthern California, is the authorofSamuelJohnson andMoralDiscipline, Defoe andFictional Time, and Origins ofFuturistic Fiction. Paul H. Meyer has been teaching all aspects ofFrench eighteenth-century literature at the University of Connecticut since 1954. His primary interests are the philosophes and the relations between French, English, and German 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 Tordre 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. The late Mark S. Madoff was Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Royal Roads Military College. He had published on Sterne, Swift, Gothic fiction, and Canadian poetry and was preparing TheSecretChief:An Ecology ofConspiracy-Narratives for publication at the time of his death. James F. Jones, Jr is the author oftwo books on Rousseau, as well as over twenty articles, and the translator of Prévost's L'Histoire d'une Grecque moderne. He has been the Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University, St Louis, since 1982. Leland E. Warren, Professor of English at Kansas State University, has published on Fielding, Sterne, Godwin, and Lennox, and on conversation and sensibility in eighteenthcentury England. ...