Contributors

Contributors PN. Furbank and W.R. Owens are the authors ofA Critical Bibliography ofDaniel Defoe (1998), and are working together on the Pickering and Chatto edition of The Works ofDaniel Defoe, General Editors, W.R.Owens and P.N. Furbank (44 volumes, in progress, 2000-). Patrick Parrinder, who teaches at the University of Reading, is author of books on science fiction, James Joyce, and literary criticism 1750-1990. His study of H.G. Wells, Shadow ofthe Future, won the 1996 Eaton Award for the Best Critical Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. He is working on a book on eighteenth and nineteenth-century English fiction. Arlene Fish Wilner is Professor of English and American Studies and Director ofComposition at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She has written numerous articles on eighteenth-century literature and on contemporary fiction. A 1999 recipientofRider's Distinguished Teaching Award, she was recently selected as a Carnegie Scholar by the Pew National Fellowship Program. Betty A. Schellenberg, Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University , is author of The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775 (1996) and co-editor of Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel (1998). Her current projects are on the professional lives ofmid-eighteenth-century women novelists and on sequelization in eighteenth-century print culture. Li-Ping Geng received his doctorate from the University of Toronto; he is the editor of the Loiterer and is currently researching a book on sensibility. Richard Kroll teaches British literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is currently working on a book about the relationship between seventeenth-century political theory and Restoration drama. Deidre Lynch is a Fellow this year at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, where she is at work on a cultural history of the "love" of literature. Christopher Flint, Associate Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University , is the author of Family Fictions: Narrative and Domestic Relations in Britain, 1688-1798(1998), and is working on a study of eighteenth-century print culture and British prose fiction. John Allen Stevenson, Associate Professor and Chair ofEnglish at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has published a number of articles on Fielding, and is now completing a book tentatively titled "Fielding's Mirrors." Pierre Saint-Amand is the author of several books on the French Enlightenment. His latest publication is The Laws of Hostility: Violence and the Enlightenment. His edition of Thérèse philosophe is forthcoming. Malcolm Cook is Professor of French Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Exeter. He is leading the team which is preparing the critical edition of the correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and has recently published on the Bernardin manuscripts. Mary Waldron's most recent publication is Jane Austen and the Fiction ofHer Time (1999). Joeseph Wiesenfarth is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin , Madison and has written extensively on Jane Austen. Rosena Davison is Professor of French at Simon Fraser University. She prepared a critical edition of Mme d'Epinay's Conversations d'Emilie for Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, and is now writing on the French émigrées. Eleanor Ty is author of Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812 (1998) and Unsex'd Revolutionaries : Five Women Novelists of the 1790s (1993). She has edited Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1996) and The Victim ofPrejudice by Mary Hays (1995, 1998). Madeletne Dobie is Associate Professor ofFrench at Tulane University; she is the author of Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language and Culture in French Orientalism, forthcoming. ...