Contributors

Contributors RaymondTrousson, professeur à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, membre de l'Académie Royale de Langue et de Littérature françaises, a publié divers ouvrages dans le domaine de la littérature comparée, des ouvrages sur Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo et, en deux volumes, une biographie de Rousseau. Charles A. Knight, who teaches English at the University ofMassachusetts, Boston, has published widely on eighteenth-century fiction (especially Fielding), on the periodical essay, and on saure. John Skinner is senior lecturer in Engish at the University of Turku, Finland. He completed his doctorate on Cervantes and the English eighteenth-century novel at Cambridge University. He has publishedtwo books, Tell-Tale Theories, and 77teFiction of Anita Brookner: Illusions ofRomance, and is working on a study of Smollett. Tara Ghoshal Wallace, Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University, has edited Frances Bumey's A Busy Day (1984). She has written on Sir Walter Scott and on Jane Austen and is currently working on a book on Austen and narrative authority. Richard G. Hodgson is Associate Professor of French at the University of British Columbia. Although his primary research interests are in seventeenth and early eighteenthcentury French fiction, he has recently completed a study of the problem of truth in La Rochefoucauld. Jonathan Lamb, Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, is the author of Sterne's Fiction and the Double Principle (1990). He is currently working on Job and the theme of consolation in eighteenth-century literature and art. John McVeagh teaches at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. His books have included Tradefull Merchants (1981), All Before Them (ed. 1990), and, with Andrew Hadfield, Strangers to That Land (forthcoming). He is currently working on a bibliography of Irish travel. Ira Königsberg, Professor of English and Director of the Program in Film and Video Studies at the University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, is author of SamuelRichardson and the Dramatic Novel, Narrative Technique in English Fiction: Defoe to Austen, and The Complete Film Directory. Paul J. Korshin, editor of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of several dozen essays on Johnson, he is writing the first critical study of Johnson's Rambler, entitled Samuel Johnson at Mid-Century. David McCracken, Professor of English and Comparative Religion at the University of Washington, has written Wordsworth and the Lake District and studies ofGodwin, Burke, Junius, Goldsmith, and others and is currently writing a book on biblical narrative. G.S. Rousseau, ProfessorofEnglish at the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles, has long been interested in the discourse of sexuality. Last year his collected essays were published as a trilogy ofvolumes: Enlightenment Crossings, Perilous Enlightenment, and EnlightenmentBorders . He is also the author ofa trilogy ofedited books with Roy Porter dealing with the history of sexuality. Marie-France Silver, professeure agrégée au Collège Glendon (de l'Université York), est l'auteure d'Echos du Canadafrançais (1884). Elle a publié des articles sur la presse au XVIIIe siècle, et sur le roman de l'époque révolutionnaire. Elle prépare un recueil de correspondance et une anthologie d'auteures du XVIIIe siècle. Adrienne D. Hytier is Lichtenstein-Dale Professor of French at Vassar College. She has been Editor for French Literature ofThe Eighteenth Century:A CurrentBibliography since 1970. She is also author of Two Years ofFrench Foreign Policy: Vichy 1940-1942, Les Dépêches diplomatiques du Comte de Gobineau en Perse, La Guerre, and numerous articles and reviews. ...