Contributors

Contributors Maximillian E. Novak, Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles , is the compiler of the Defoe bibliography in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and the author of several books on Defoe. Jo-Ann McEachern, Professor of French at the University of British Columbia, is general editor of the Bibliography of the Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to 1800 (forthcoming) and a member of the group which is editing the correspondence of Mme de Graffigny. David Smith teaches French at the University of Toronto. Peter V. Merchant, Senior Lecturer in English at Christ Church College, Canterbury, has published essays on subjects drawn from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is contributing a chapter on the Victorian audior Anna Kingsford to a forthcoming collection of essays, The Angel in the House. Janie Vanpée teaches at Smith College and has published essays on Rousseau, Greuze, Laclos, and Olympe de Gouges. She is currendy working on a book on Olympe de Gouges's political pamphlets and theatre. Susan L. Jacobsen, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton, has written on Defoe and is now working on the gin acts of the early eighteenth century. Carolyn Woodward, Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico , is editor of The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable by Sarah Fielding with Jane Collier (forthcoming). Barbara Laning Fttzpatrick is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Orleans. She has recenüy edited the text of Sir Launcelot Greaves and has published articles on eighteenth-century periodicals and book trade history. Warren Montag teaches English at Occidental College, Los Angeles, and is author of The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy ofa Church ofEnglandMan (1994). Austair M. Duckworth is Professor of English at University of Florida, Gainesville. His edition of Howards End, with accompanying critical essays by himself and by J.H. Stape, Peter Widdowson, Elizabeth Langland, Judith Weissman, and J. Hillis Miller, will appear shortly. Aubrey Rosenberg is Professor Emeritus in the Department of French, University of Toronto. Ruth Perry, Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, has written widely on eighteenth-century English letters and culture and is currently working on a history of kinship and the family in relation to the novel in England 1750-1810. Maria JoAo Brilhante enseigne littérature et culture françaises et théorie de la traduction à la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Lisbonne où elle est également co-responsable du Centre d'Études de Théâtre. Alan J. Singerman, Professor of French at Davidson College, is the author of L'Abbé Prévost: l'amour et la morale (1987) and of a critical edition of Prévost's Histoire d'une Grecque moderne (1990). Brean S. Hammond is Rendei Professor of English and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His next book, Hackneyfor Bread, on the emergence of professional writing in England, will be published early next year. Helen Ostovich, Associate Professor of English at McMaster University, has published articles on Tristram Shandy and Clarissa, but spends most of her time on early seventeenth-century drama. Her edition of Ben Jonson: Four Comedies is forthcoming. Peter V. Conroy Jr, who teaches French at the University of Illinois, Chicago, is author of Montesquieu Revisited (1992), and is preparing a book on Jean-Jacques Rousseau for the Twayne World Authors series. Franco Piva est professeur de langue et littérature françaises à l'Université de Vérone. Il s'intéresse au roman français des XVIIe et xvnr* siècles et aux Lumières à Venise. Il est en train de publier l'œuvre de Catherine Bernard. Everett Zimmerman is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Defoe and the Novel, Swift's Narrative Satires, and Boundaries ofFiction (forthcoming). Peter Sabor is professeur titulaire at Université Laval, Québec. His edition of The Complete Plays ofFrances Burney, co-edited with Stewart Cooke and Geoffrey Sill, was published in 1995. ...