Contributors to Volume 33

Contributors to Volume 33 Jeffrey Barnouw is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published three or more essays on Bacon, on Hobbes, On Leibniz, on Vico, on Schiller, and on Charles Sanders Peirce. His book, Propositional Perception. Phantasia, Predication and Sign in Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, was brought out by the University Press of America in 2002. Barbara Benedict is Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. She is author of Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745-1800 (AMS Press, 1994), Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies (Princeton University Press 1996), and Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (The University of Chicago Press, 2001). She has also edited Wilkes and the Later Eighteenth Century, a volume of eighteenth-century erotica (Pickering and Chatto, 2002) and is currently editing Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey for Cambridge University Press. Melissa K. Downes received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Her current research focuses on representations of the Caribbean in early eighteenth-century British literature. Ted Emery is Assistant Professor of Italian at Dickinson College. He is author of Goldoni as Librettist (Peter Lang, 1991) and of articles on Goldoni, Casanova, Carlo Gozzi, and Pietro Chiari. With Albert Bermel, he is editor and translator of plays by Gozzi, under the title Five Tales for the Theater (University of Chicago Press, 1989). Timothy Erwin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The present essay, on beauty, was read at the 2001 MWASECS meeting in Iowa City. Along with recent essays on Hogarth in the Huntington Library Quarterly and on Johnson in The Age of Johnson, it belongs to an ongoing study of pictorial metaphors during the Enlightenment. 437 438 / Contributors Susan C. Greenfield is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University and the author of Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen (Wayne State, 2002). She is co-editor (with Carol Barash) of Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science and Literature, 1650-1865 (Kentucky, 1999). Her articles have appeared in PMLA, ELH, and other journals. George Haggerty is Professor and Chair of English at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form (Penn State, 1989), Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth-Century (Indiana, 1998) and Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century (Columbia, 1999). He has also edited Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature (MLA, 1995) and Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 2000). At present he is at work on a longer study of the life and work of Horace Walpole. Adam Komisaruk is Assistant Professor of English at West Virginia University. His publications include articles on Mary Shelley and on Matthew Gregory Lewis. He is at work on a book-length study of sexuality and the middle class in British Romanticism; and on 77ze Blake Model, a virtualenvironments project. He delivered a version of this essay at the 2001 Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Atlantic Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Laurence Mall is Associate Professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of two books on Rousseau, Origines et retraites dans La Nouvelle Héloïse (1997) and Emile ou les figures de la fiction (2002), and she has written articles on various French eighteenthcentury authors. Her current research includes the preparation of a book on the subject in Diderot's Salons and his later works. James Mulholland is a doctoral candidate in English literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His dissertation, from which this article is drawn, examines tropes of orality in relation to voice in eighteenth-century poetry. Alexander H. Pitofsky is Assistant Professor of English at Appalachian State University. His publications include articles on Frances Bumey's Evelina, James Oglethorpe's prison reform writings, and Theodore Dreiser's The Financier. His book-in-progress studies links between prison...