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Contributors A.D. Harvey's books include English Poetry in a Changing Society 1780-1825 (1980) and Literature into History (1988). Jean-Michel Racault est professeur de Littérature Comparée à L'Université de la Réunion, où il dirige le Centre de Recherches Littéraires et Historiques. Il est auteur des Etudes sur Paul et Virginie (1986) et de V Utopie narrative en France et en Angleterre de l'âge classique aux Lumières (1991). Pierre Saint-Amandenseigne la littérature française à l'Université Brown. Il est auteur de Diderot. LeLabyrinthe de la relation, Séduire ou lapassion desLumières, et de LesLois de l'hostilité. Betty A. Schellenberg, Assistant Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, is working on the prose of Bunyan, Richardson, and Sarah Fielding. Patrick Brady, a specialist in period style (the rococo, Impressionism), form in fiction, and modern theory, holds the Shumway Chair of Excellence in Romance Languages at the University of Tennessee. Glenda A. Hudson is an Assistant ProfessorofEnglish and Communications at California State University, Bakersfield. Kevin L. Cope, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University, is the author of Criteria ofCertainty: Truth andJudgment in the English Enlightenment (1990), is currently editing two collections of essays, and has scribbled a litany of articles on eighteenth-century topics. JANiE Vanpée, Associate Professor of French at Smith College, has written on Rousseau and is currently preparing a monograph on Olympe de Gouges's political tracts. Gethin Hughes has published on Spanish Golden Age verse and prose. His principal areas of interest are the picaresque novel and eighteenth-century travel literature in Spain. Joe Adamson teaches English and Comparative Literature at McMaster University. He is the author of Wounded Fiction: Modern Poetry and Deconstruction (1988). Juliet McMaster, University Professor of English at the University of Alberta and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is the author of articles on Sterne, Defoe, and Richardson and of books on Thackeray, Trollope, Jane Austen, and Dickens. She is currently working on a study of body and character in eighteenth-century fiction. David C. Hensley teaches English at McGiII University and is writing a book on Clarissa. John Halperin, Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and a Fellow of the Royal Society ofLiterature, is the author of TheLife ofJaneAusten (1984) and a number of other studies in nineteenth-century fiction. Kim Ian Michasiw, Assistant Professor of English at York University, teaches eighteenth-century fiction and psychoanalytic theory. Susan K. Jackson teaches French Literature at Boston University. Betty Rizzo, whose most recent book is TheAnnotatedLetters ofChristopherSmart (with Robert Mahony), is Professor of English at The City College of New York. Eleanor Ty is Assistant Professor of English at Wilfrid LaurierUniversity. She is working on a scholarly edition of Mary Hays's The Victim ofPrejudice (1799). ...

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