Contributors

Contributors Carl R. Lovitt, Associate Professor of English at Clemson University, is examining the way in which novelists assume criminal personae. His study of Agatha Christie's most controversial novel was recently published in The Cunning Craft. Albert J. Rivero is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of The Plays of Henry Fielding: A Critical Study of His Dramatic Career, and is working on a book tentatively titled Donning the Quixote: Henry Fielding and the Duplicities ofRepresentation. Jane Rush est professeur adjoint à l'Université McMaster. Elle travaille actuellement sur Lesage et le Théâtre de la Foire. Aileen Douglas of University College, Dublin, has recently completed a manuscript called Uneasy Sensations: Smollett and the Body. Her current research interests concern gender and culture in eighteenth-century England. Nadine BéRENGUIER is Assistant Professor of French at Harvard University. Her current research focuses on the relationship between law and literature in eighteenth-century France. Brian McCrea, who teaches English at the University of Florida, is author of Henry Fielding and the Politics of Mid-Eighteenth-Century England (1981) and of Addison and Steele Are Dead: The English Department, Its Canon, and the Professionalhation of Literary Criticism (1990). Jean Wilson, Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at McMaster University, is the author of The Challenge ofBelatedness: Goethe, Kleist, Hofmannsthal (1991). Franco Piva de l'Université de Verona s'intéresse au roman français, surtout Bernard, Challe, et Prévost, et aussi aux Lumières à Venise. GwiN KOLB is Chester D. Tripp Professor Emeritus in Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous writings on Johnson and the members of his circle. John A. Fleming is a member of the French Department at the University of Toronto. He is interested in literary theory and the evolution of the French novel from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Syndy McMillen Conger is Professor of English at Western Illinois University. She has published essays in recent years on English Women writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and is currently working on a comparative study of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Susan C. Greenfield is Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University. She is studying representations of maternity and female kinship in late-eighteenth-century novels by women. Claudia L. Johnson is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, and a Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. She is the author ofJane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel and has just finished a book on sentimentality and the novel of the 1790s. Vivien Jones is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. She is editor of Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions ofFemininity (1990), and has published books on Jane Austen and Henry James and articles on eighteenth-century women's writing. Nancy Senior is Professor of French at the University of Saskatchewan. She has published articles on child care and education in the eighteenth century, most recently on the teaching of reading and on spelling reform. Alexander ?etpt teaches English at the University of Texas, Denton. He recently completed a book about the opposition to Sir Robert Walpole, and is currently preparing Of Royall Education and The Compleat English Gentleman for the Stoke Newington Edition of Defoe. Catherine Gallouët-Schutter is Associate Professor of French at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She specializes in Marivaux and is preparing a manuscript of his early fiction. Bruce Beiderwell teaches at University of California, Los Angeles, and is author of Power and Punishment in Scott's Novels (1992). ...