Contributors

Contributors ISOBEL Grundy, Henry Marshall Tory Professor at the University of Alberta, is author of SamuelJohnson and the Scale ofGreatness (1986), co-author of The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writersfrom the Middle Ages to the Present (1990), and co-editor of Women, Writing, History 1640-1740 (1992). She is at work on a new life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Peter Fitting is Associate Professor in French at the University of Toronto with a longtime interest in science fiction. He has published articles on English-language science fiction and Utopia in Science Fiction Studies, Cinéaction, Etudes littéraires, Women's Studies, Sociocriticism, and Utopian Studies. He is currently at work on subterranean novels in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick is Assistant Professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She is working on a book on revisions in the novels of Maria Edgeworth and on an edition of Belinda. Cynthia Wall is Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College. She has published articles on Pope and on Defoe, and is currently working on a book about Defoe and modem literary space. Nicole Boursier, Associate Professor of French at the University of Toronto, is the author and editor of a variety of books and articles on seventeenth and eighteenthcentury French literature. She is a member of the group editing the correspondence of Mme de Graffigny and is a co-founder of the Société d'Analyse de la Topique dans les Œuvres Romanesques (SATOR). François Moureau est professeur de Littérature française du xvme siècle à l'Université de Paris—Sorbonne. Paula R. Backscheider is the Pepperell Eminent Scholar in English at Auburn University . She is author of Daniel Defoe: His Life and of the forthcoming Power, Politics, and the Rise ofMass Culture in Early Modern England (1993). Tom Keymer, Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London, is writing a book about epistolary fiction in English, 1678-1824. He is the author of Richardson's "Clarissa" and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (1992). Joel Weinsheimer, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, is the author most recently of Eighteenth-Century Hermeneutics: Philosophy ofInterpretation in Englandfrom Locke to Burke. Stuart Curran, Andrea Mitchell Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania , is author of two books on Shelley, edits the Keats-Shelley Journal, and has most recently edited the Poems of Charlotte Smith and The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Roger Barny, dont les livres les plus récents sont Rousseau dans la Révolution: le Personnage de Jean-Jacques et les débuts du culte révolutionnaire 1787-91 (1986) et Le Comte d'Antraiques: un Disciple aristocrate de J.-J. Rousseau (1991), est professeur emèrite de l'Université de Besançon. ...