Contributors

Contributors William B. Warner is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at SUNY— Buffalo. He is the author of Reading Clarissa, and is currently at work on a book-length project entitled "The Elevation of the Novel in England: An Essay on Cultural Change." Malcolm C. Cook is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter. He has published articles on eighteenth-century French fiction and written books on the novel in the French Revolution and on Gil Bias. He is currently French editor of the Modern Language Review. Pamela Clemit is Lecturer in English at the University of Durham. She is working on a book on William Godwin's novels and on a sixteen-volume edition of Godwin's works. Angus Martin, a member of the School of Modern Languages at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, has worked on the bibliography ofeighteenth-century French fiction and on fiction in French periodicals of the period. He is currently interested in the novel of the Napoleonic period and in the application of computer techniques to bibliographical and literary studies. Nicholas Hudson, the author of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought (1988), is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. Peter Walmsley, Assistant Professor of English at McMaster University, is the author of The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy and is currently working on the language of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Monique Moser-Verrey est professeure adjointe de littérature française et allemande à l'Université Laval. Auteure de Dualité et continuité du discours narratif dans "Don Sylvio," "Joseph Andrews," et "Jacques le fataliste," elle poursuit actuellement une recherche sur l'inscription du geste dans les romans et récits de Kafka. Jean-Pierre Dens est professeur à l'Université de la Nouvelle-Orléans et termine en ce moment un ouvrage sur Ecriture et libertinage: Crébillon, Duelos, et Casanova. Julia Prewitt Brown teaches English at Boston University and is the author of books on Jane Austen and the nineteenth-century English novel. John Mullan, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, is the author of Sentiment and Sociability: The Language ofFeeling in the Eighteenth Century, reviewed here. Syndy M. Conger, Professor of English at Western Illinois University, has published on Anglo-German literary relations of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, on Gothic fiction, and on women writers of sensibility. She has recently edited Sensibility in Transforation: Creative Resistance to Sentimentfrom the Augustants to the Romantics. Essays in Honor ofJean H. Hagstrum (1990). Robert D. Hume is Distinguished Professor of English at Pennsylvania State Univeristy. Shawn Lisa Maurer, a Graduate Fellow at the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities, is currently completing her doctoral dissertation, "Reforming Men: Gender, Sexuality and Class in the English Periodical, 1691-1760." ...