Contributors

Contributors Maximillian E. Novak, Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the compiler ofthe Defoe bibliography in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and the author of several books on Defoe. Dianne Armstrong is a Ph.D. candidate in the Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature programme at the University of Southern California, working on her dissertation on frame narrative. Diane Fourny, Associate Professor of French at the University of Kansas, has published essays on Rousseau, Diderot, travel literature, and classical theatre. Robert Mayer teaches English at Oklahoma State University, has published articles on Defoe and Scott, and is finishing a book entitled Matters ofFact: Historiography, Defoe, and the Novel. Lois A. Chaber, who has taught English at the State University ofNew York—Albany and at Qatar University on the Arabian Gulf, is currently an independent scholar in London. She has published various essays on eighteenth-century fiction and is at work on Richardson's portrayal of child-bearing. Pat Rogers, DeBartolo Professor ofLiberal Arts at the University of South Florida, is the author of several books on the eighteenth century and is advisory editor ofthe forthcoming Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment. Robert A. Erickson, Professor ofEnglish at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara, is the author of Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1986) and co-editor of Arbuthnot's The History ofJohn Bull (1976). He is currently working on a study of the anatomy of the heart in seventeenth and eighteenth-century narrative. Marie-France Silver, professeure agrégée au Collège Glendon, de l'Université York, est l'auteure d'Echos du Canadafrançais (1984). Elle s'intéresse à la littérature de la période révolutionnaire (Sade, Theremin, Boissel, Gouges, Barthélémy) et aux écrits intimes et œuvres morales de femmes du xvme siècle. David Smith teaches French at the University of Toronto. Arnold Ages, Professor of French at the University of Waterloo, is a specialist in French Enlightenment thought and intellectual history. ...