Contributors

Contributors Julia Epstein is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Haverford College. She is author of The Iron Pen: Frances Burney and the Politics of Women's Writing (1989) and the coeditor, with Kristina Straub, of Body Guards: The Cultural Politics ofGender Ambiguity (1991). Amy J. Pawl, a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, is writing her dissertation about fathers and daughters in the late-eighteenthcentury sentimental novel. Susan C. Greenfield is Assistant Professor ofEnglish at Fordham University. Her article is from a book she is completing called "Novel Daughters: The Family Romance from Frances Burney to Jane Austen." Gina Campbell, a graduate student at Yale University, is writing her dissertation on the novel of manners. David Oakleaf, Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary, has written articles on Swift, Fielding, Sterne, and James Hogg and is currently working on the meanings of "character" in eighteenth-century fiction. Margaret Anne Doody, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is the author ofA Natural Passion: A Study oftheNovels of Samuel Richardson, The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered, and Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. She is now working on a book on the history and form of the novel in the West. Julie C. Hayes, Associate Professor of French at the University of Richmond, is the author of Identity and Ideology: Diderot, Sade, and the Serious Genre, and is currently interested in systematization and categorization in Enlightenment discourse. Maria Joäo Brilhante est professeur à l'Université de Lisbonne; elle enseigne la littérature et la culture françaises et elle est l'auteur de travaux sur le théâtre des XVIIIe et XXe siècles. CP. Courtney, who is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, is the coeditor, with Giles Barber, of Enlightenment Essays in Memory ofRobert Shackleton (1988). Isobel Grundy, one of three author-editors of The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writersfrom the Middle Ages to the present (1990), has recently moved from London University to become Henry Marshall Tory Professor at the University of Alberta. Charles A. Porter, Professor of French at Yale University, is the author of Restif's Novels, or An Autobiography in Search ofan Author and Chateaubriand: Composition, Imagination, and Poetry. D.D. Devlin is Professor of English at Queen's University, Belfast. Patricia B. Craddock, Chair of the Department of English at the University of Florida, is author or editor of four books on Jane Austen's fellow ironist, Edward Gibbon. Ruth Perry, Professor ofLiterature at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, is working on a book tentatively titled "Novel Relations: A History of the Family and the Novel in English Society 1750-1810." David Womersley is Fellow and Tutor in English at Jesus College, Oxford. His The Transformation ofThe Decline and Fall ofthe Roman Empire was published in 1988. Frank Felsenstein, who teaches English at the University of Leeds, is at present completing a study of anti-Semitic stereotypes in eighteenth-century English popular culture. ...