Contributors

Contributors Julia Abramson is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Oklahoma. Her article "Grimod's Debt toMercier and the Emergence of Gastronomic Writing Reconsidered" appeared in EMF: Studies inEarly Modern France 7 in 2001. Robert Appelbaum is a Research Fellow at the Center of Humanities, Wesleyan University, and has taught at the University of San Diego and the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England and co-editor, with John Wood Sweet, of the foiilicoming Envisioning Empire: Jamestown and theMaking of the North Atlantic World. Natania Meeker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. She has published articles on Olympe de Gouges and Julien Offray de la Mettrie and is currently preparing a book manuscript entitled Reading for Pleasure: Epicureans, Materialists, and Libertines inEnlightenment France. Sandra Sherman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, specializing in eighteenth-century British literature. She has written two books and over twenty articles, mainly addressing the relation of literature to economics. "Printed Communities" was written while Sherman was Visiting Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University. Contributors 163 Rachel Ramsey is an Assistant Professor of English at Assumption College, where she teaches eighteenth-century British literature. She is currently working on a study of literary representations of urbanization in early modern London. Harry Keyishian is Professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University inMadison, N.J. He is the author of The Shapes of Revenge: Victimization, Vengeance, and Vindictiveness in Shakespeare (1995), as well as articles on Renaissance drama and Shakespeare in performance. William N. West is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the author of Theatres and Encyclopedias in Ekirly Modern Europe (Cambridge UP, 2002). He is currently working on early modern protocols ofmimesis and confusion. ...