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Contributors to Volume 22 Wye J. Allanbrook is on the faculty of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. She is the author of Rhythmic Gestures in Mozart, and she is presently working on a study of expression in classic instrumental music. Janet Gurkin Altman, Professor of French at the University of Iowa, has studied letter novels in Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form (1982). Her recent research has led to a series of articles on Françoise de Graffigny, writers' correspondence, and letter manuals. Her contribution to this volume is part of a longer inquiry into the role of letter books in cultural history. Peter M. Briggs is Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. In the past he has written a number of articles concerning various aspects of English satire, and he is currently at work on a longer study of personal publicity and the changing roles of public example in eighteenth-century British culture. Paula Wood Brown is currently working on her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. Her paper was read at the 1991 ASECS conference in Pittsburgh, and was adapted from her master's thesis written at Auburn University under the patient and acute direction of Miller Solomon. Presently she continues to research topics in the eighteenth century as well as pursuing interests in ethics and critical theory. Isobel Grundy, Henry Marshall Tory Professor at the University of Alberta, moved there in 1990 from Queen Mary and Westfield College, London University. Her publications include Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness (Georgia, 1986), the pre-Victorian sections of The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (Yale, 1990), and (ed. with Susan Wiseman) Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740 (Georgia, 1992). Elizabeth Kraft teaches in the Department of English at the University of Georgia. Her book, Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction was recently published by the University of Georgia Press. She is currently editing with William McCarthy the complete poems of Anna Barbauld. She has published on Sterne and Congreve. This paper was read at the 1991 ASECS convention in Pittsburgh. 341 342 / Contributors Jean I. Marsden is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is editor of The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth. She recently completed a book on Shakespearean adaptions and literary theory in the eighteenth century and has published on women, drama, and eighteenth-century literary theory. Lore Metzger is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Emory University. She is the author of One Foot in Eden: Modes of Pastoral in Romantic Poetry (University of North Carolina, 1986) and contributing editor of the Marginalia, in five parts, vol. 12 of the Collected Works of S. T. Coleridge (Princeton, 1980-). She has also published articles on English and German Romantic poets and critics and is currently completing a book on issues of gender, genre, and ideology in Goethe's Faust and works of English Romanticism. Maureen E. Mulvilhill of The Princeton Research Forum, formerly with New York's Institute for Research in History, presented her paper at the 1991 ASECS conference. Her essays have appeared in Restoration, Scriblerian, and Curtain Calls (Ohio 1991); she published profiles in Todd's Dictionary, Todd's British Women Writers, and Wilson's Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. She has been an NEH Institute Fellow, a Clifford Committee member, a Visiting Scholar in Colorado and Utah, and a guest speaker on several campuses. Forthcoming are Poems by Ephelia (Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints), A Critical Edition of Ephelia, and "Joseph Hindmarsh" (Schnellere British Publishers). Her present project is described in her article. Terri Nickel is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. She is currently at work on an analysis of the popular response to Pamela. Her paper was read at the 1991 WSECS meeting in San Diego. Jane Perry-Camp is Professor of Music Theory in the Florida State University School of Music; her essay was read at the 1991 ASECS meeting in Pittsburgh. Her musical activities range from piano performance (including solo and chamber music recitals in Europe and in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York) to a...

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