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ContributorstoVolume24 PAULAR.BACKSCHEIDERisPepperellEminentScholaratAuburn UniversityandaformerpresidentofASECS.Hermostrecentbookis SpectacularPolitics:TheatricalPowerandMassCultureinEarlyModern England(JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,1993).Sheistheauthorof DanielDefoe:HisLifeandotherbooksandarticles. JEFFREYBARNOUWhaswrittennumerousarticlesontheintellectual historyoftheseventeenthandeighteenthcenturies.HeteachesEnglishand ComparativeLiteratureattheUniversityofTexasatAustin.Hisessaywas firstpresentedatthe1993ASECSmeeting. LESLIEELLENBROWN,AssociateDeanforAcademicServices,Collegeof ArtsandArchitecture,andProfessorofMusicatPennStateUniversity,has publishedwidelyintheareasofeighteenth-centuryFrenchopera,aesthetics oftheScottishEnlightenment,andeighteenth-centurybibliography.She editedvolumes19and20ofStudiesinEighteenth-CenturyCultureandis theco-editoroÃ-HanoverianBritain:AnEncyclopedia(Garland).Heressay wasfirstpresentedatthe1992jointconferenceoftheEast-CentralAmerican SocietyforEighteenth-CenturyStudiesandtheEighteenth-CenturyScottish StudiesSociety. PAMELACANTRELLisaPh.D.candidateattheUniversityofNevada,Las Vegasinliteratureandarthistory.HerworkonSmollettandHogarth formsthebeginningofalargerexaminationoftheanalogybetweenthearts fromearlymodernismtothepostmodern.Sheiscurrentlyworkingonthe affinitybetweenHenryJamesandJamesMcNeillWhistler.Heressaywas originallypresentedatthe1991NWSECSmeeting. PATRICKCOLEMANisProfessorofFrenchattheUniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles.HeistheauthorofRousseau'sPoliticalImagination(Droz, 1984)andtheeditorofRousseau'sDiscourseonInequality(Oxford,1994). HeiscurrentlycompletingabookontheFrenchpre-romanticnovel.His essaywaspresentedatthe1993ASECSmeeting. ROBERTP.CREASEisaProfessorofPhilosophyattheStateUniversityof NewYorkatStonyBrook.HeistheauthorofThePlayofNature: ExperimentationasPerformance(Bloomington:IndianaUniversityPress, 329 330/Contributors 1993).Hisessayisarevisionofapaperpresentedatthe1992NEASECS meeting. WILLIAMF.EDMISTONisProfessorandChairoftheDepartmentofFrench andClassicsattheUniversityofSouthCarolinainColumbia.Heisthe authorofDiderotandFamily(1985)andHindsightandInsight: FocalizationinFourEighteenth-CenturyFrenchNovels(1991).Aversion ofhispaperwasreadatthe1992EC/ASECSconferenceinPhiladelphia. JAMESM.FARRELLisanAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentof CommunicationattheUniversityofNewHampshire.Hewastrainedin rhetoricandpublicaddressattheUniversityofWisconsin(Ph.D.1988),and haspublishedarticlesoneighteenth-andnineteenth-centuryAmericanpublic address,classicalinfluencesonAmericanrhetoric,andeighteenth-century rhetoricaltheory.Hisessayisderivedfromapaperpresentedatthe1993 ASECSmeeting. MOIRAFERGUSONistheJamesE.RyanChairinEnglishandWomen's LiteratureattheUniversityofNebraska-Lincoln.Sheistheauthorof SubjecttoOthers:BritishWomenWritersandColonialSlavery,16781834 (ColumbiaUniversity,1992);TheHartSisters:EarlyAfrican- CaribbeanWriters,Evangelicals,andRadicals(UniversityofNebraska Press,1993);andJamaicaKincaid,WheretheLandMeetstheBody (UniversityPressofVirginia,forthcoming).Aversionofheressaywas presentedatthe1993ASECSmeeting. MAUREENHARKINrecentlycompletedherPh.D.atJohnsHopkins University.HerdissertationisonSmith,sympathy,andthesentimental novel.ShehaspublishedonHenryMackenzieandthesentimentalnovelin ELH.SheisAssistantProfessorofLiteratureatNewCollegeofthe UniversityofSouthFlorida.Heressayisderivedfromapaperpresentedat the1993WSECSmeeting. CATHERINEINGRASSIAisanAssistantProfessorofEnglishatVirginia CommonwealthUniversity.Thisessayisfromalongerstudyentitled PaperCredit:GrubStreet,ExchangeAlleyandFeminizationinEarly Eighteenth-CenturyEngland.ShepresentedherpaperatASECS1993in Providence. PHILIPKOCH,ProfessorEmeritusofFrench,UniversityofPittsburgh,has alongstandinginterestintheseventeenth-andeighteenth-centurytheaterof France,Italo-Frenchliteraryrelations,andthe"commediadell'arte."Heis atpresentengagedinthepreparationofacriticaledition/translationof BartolomeoRossi'sRenaissancepastoralFiammella,aprojectcloserto Contributors /331 eighteenth-centuryconcernsthanmightatfirstappear.Hisessaywasfirst presentedatthe1993ASECSmeeting. WILLIAMLEVINEhaspublishedarticlesonmid-eighteenth-centurypoetry, Johnson,Coleridge,andWordsworthinSEL,Criticism,TheWordsworth Circle,andPhilologicalQuarterly.Thecurrentessayispartofaworkin progressonthehistoryofcivicobligationinEnglishpoetryandcultural criticismfrom1740to1830andwasoriginallypresentedin1993at WCECS. THOMASE.MARESCAisProfessorand,currently,ChairmanofEnglishat SUNYStonyBrook.Hisworkintheeighteenthcenturyincludesnumerous articlesandthebooksPope'sHoratianPoems(Columbus:TheOhioState UniversityPress,1966)andEpictoNovel(Columbus:TheOhioState UniversityPress,1974).Hehasforsometimenowbeenengagedina lengthystudyofallegoryin,before,andaftertheeighteenthcentury.His essaywaspresentedatthe1992NEASECSmeeting. BETTYRIZZO,ProfessorofEnglishattheCityCollegeofNewYorkand theCUNYGraduateCenter,haspublishedmanyarticlesontheeighteenth centuryandtwowritingtextbooks,isco-authoroftwobookson ChristopherSmart,andauthorofCompanionsWithoutVows: RelationshipsamongEighteenth-CenturyBrittehWomenpublishedbythe UniversityofGeorgiaPressin1994.Herpaperwasreadatthe1993 ASECSmeetinginProvidence: ZEYNEPTENGERisAssistantProfessorofEnglishatBerryCollege.She isco-authorof'"ImpartialCritic'or'MusesHandmaid':ThePoliticsof CriticalPracticeintheEarlyEighteenthCentury,"toappearinEssaysin Literature.Sheiscurrentlyco-authoringabook-lengthstudy,TheCulture ofCriticism:theSocialRolesofCriticisminEngland,1662-1835.Her essaywasjointlypresentedwithPaulTrolanderatthe1993SEASECS meeting. PAULTROLANDERisAssistantProfessorofEnglishatBerryCollege.He isco-authorof'"ImpartialCritic'or'MusesHandmaid':ThePoliticsof CriticalPracticeintheEarlyEighteenthCentury,"toappearinEssaysin Literatureandauthorof"ThePoliticsoftheEpisteme:TheCollapseofthe DiscourseofGeneralNatureandtheReactiontotheFrenchRevolution"to appearinNewEssaysontheFrenchRevolutionDebate(Contemporary ResearchPress,forthcoming).Heiscurrentlyco-authoringabook-length study,TheCultureofCriticism:theSocialRolesofCriticisminEngland, 1662-1835. 332/Contributors JAMESGRANTHAMTURNERisProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityof California,Berkeley,andin1993wasaNationalEndowmentforthe HumanitiesFellowattheNewberryLibrary.InadditiontoeditingPolitics, PoeticsandHermeneuticsinMilton'sProse(1990),RobertPaltock'sLife andAdventuresofPeterWilkins(1990),andSexualityandGenderinEarly ModernEurope:Institutions,Texts,Images(1993),hehaswrittennumer- ousarticlesonseventeenth-andeighteenth-centurycultureandtwobooks: ThePoliticsofLandscape:RuralSceneryandSocietyinEnglishPoetry, 1630-1660(1979)andOneFlesh:Paradisa!MarriageandSexualRelations intheAgeofMilton(1987).Hisessayisderivedfromhis1992paper deliveredattheSeattleASECSmeeting. ARLENEFISHWILNERearnedherPh.D.inEnglishliteratureatColumbia University,specializingintheeighteenthcentury.AnAssociateProfessor ofEnglishatRiderCollegeinLawrenceville,NJ,shehaspublishedarticles onHenryFielding'sfiction,travelwriting,andlegalpamphlets;onWilliam Steig'sbooksforchildren;andonCynthiaOzick'splaceintheAmerican literarytradition.Heressaywasoriginallypresentedatthe1993NEASECS meeting. ...

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