Contributors
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Barbara Benedict is Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature and Chair of English at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745–1800 (1994), Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literary Anthologies (1996), and Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (2001) and the editor of Wilkes and the Late Eighteenth-Century (2002). She is currently completing a scholarly edition of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and working on a book on collecting, advertising, and identity in early modern Britain.
Alastair Fowler is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Until 1997, he was Professor of English, University of Virginia. His most recent book is Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art (2003). He is the author of Kinds of Literature (1982), The Country House Poem (1994), and Time’s Purpled Masquers (1996).
Rachel Gabara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she teaches African and European literature and film. The author of “‘A Poetics of Refusals’: Neorealism from Italy to Africa,” forthcoming in Radical Fantasy: Italian Neorealism’s Afterlife in Global Cinema, she has recently completed From Split to Screened Selves: Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person, a study of French and Francophone African experiments in literary and filmic autobiography. She is currently writing a history of documentary filmmaking in West Africa from the colonial period to the present.
Peter Hitchcock is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His books include Dialogics of the Oppressed (1993), Oscillate Wildly (1999), and Imaginary States (2003). He is currently at work on a study that analyzes transnational literary form called “The Long Space.”
Dorothea E. von Mücke is Professor of German at Columbia University. She is the author of Virtue and the Veil of Illusion: Generic Innovation and the Pedagogical Project in Eighteeenth-Century Literature (1991) and The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale (2003). She edited, with Veronica Kelly, Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century (1994). Currently, she is editing The New History of German Literature with David Wellbery, Judith Ryan, Tony Kaes, and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. [End Page 377]
Thomas Pavel is Helen B. and Frank L. Sultzberger Professor at the University of Chicago. He teaches in the Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the Committee on Social Thought. His most recent books are De Barthes à Balzac: Fictions d’un critique et critiques d’une fiction (co-authored with Claude Bremond, 1998) and La pensée du roman (2003). His novel La sixième branche is forthcoming.
Mark Salber Phillips is Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740–1820 (2000), as well as earlier studies of historical and political thought in the Italian Renaissance. The present essay is part of a new book examining historical distance in the historical thought and writing of three different periods: the Italian Renaissance, Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the late twentieth century.
Peter Seitel is a folklorist at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution. He is author of See So That We May See: Translations and Interpretations of Traditional Tales from Tanzania (1980) and The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature (1999), editor of Safeguarding Traditional Cultures: A Global Assessment of the 1989 UNESCO Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Folklore (2002), and has worked on the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival since 1975. He is currently developing an Internet-, DVD-, and CD-based computer application for audio and video recordings of live performances that combines the aesthetic works with scrolling transcriptions, translations (when desired), and culturally specific, genre-informed commentaries of several types, accessible at the viewer’s option.
Susan Wells is Professor of English at Temple University. She is author of The Dialectics of Representation (1986), Sweet Reason: Intersubjectivity and the Discourses of Modernity (1996), and Out of...
