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  • Notes on Contributors

April Alliston is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She wishes to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Newberry Library, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Princeton University Council of the Humanities for supporting the research that led to this publication.

Scott Black is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah. He is author of Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (Houndmills, 2006), as well as recent essays on eighteenth-century romance, Henry Fielding, David Hume, Eliza Haywood, and José Ortega y Gasset.

Mark Blackwell is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Hartford. He is currently working as general editor of a four-volume edition of object and animal tales, British It-Narratives, 1750-1830, forthcoming from Pickering & Chatto.

George Boulukos is the author of The Grateful Slave (Cambridge, 2008), and an Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His current projects include two new essays challenging established interpretations of slavery and abolition, a history of love in eighteenth-century British literature, and an edition of the never-published 1784 memoir of the one-time stableboy and jockey Thomas Hammond.

Lynn Festa is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (Baltimore, 2006), and the co-editor, with Daniel Carey, of The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory (New York, 2009).

Jody Greene is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 1660-1730 (Philadelphia, 2005), and has edited special issues of GLQ and Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her articles have appeared in PMLA, Critical Inquiry, and GLQ.

Jonathan Lamb is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He has recently published The Evolution of Sympathy (London, 2009), and (with Vanessa Agnew) Settler and Creole Reenactment (New York, 2009). The Things Things Say was published by Princeton in 2011. For the academic year 2011-12 he is a visiting fellow at the National Maritime Museum, [End Page 472] Greenwich, where he is writing a book on the physical, neurological, and emotional symptoms of scurvy, provisionally entitled Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery.

Jayne Elizabeth Lewis is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Cambridge, 1995), and Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation (London, 1999), as well as numerous articles on 18th-century literature and culture. Her most recent book, on the rise of "atmosphere" as an aesthetic program within 18th-century fiction, will be published in 2012.

Christina Lupton teaches at the University of Michigan, where she offers courses on the eighteenth century, media, and the sociology of literature. Her recent publications include Knowing Books: the Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Philadelphia, 2012) and articles on the printing of sermons and on the relationship of self-conscious novels to contemporary video games.

Mary Helen McMurran is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Her book, The Spread of Novels: Translation and Prose Fiction in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton, 2009), addresses the mobility of prose fiction in Europe and the Atlantic arena in the eighteenth century. It shows that the novel emerges as a modern transnational genre because of radical changes in the landscape of translation in the eighteenth century. She has also written articles on Aphra Behn, abbé Desfontaines, transnationalism and the novel, and translation practices.

Lisa O'Connell is Lecturer in English at the University of Queensland. She has edited Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century (Houndmills, 2004) with Peter Cryle, and her current book project is Proper Ceremony: The Political Origins of the English Marriage Plot. She has also published articles on Sir Charles Grandison, the Marriage Act, and the Gretna Green romance.

Julie Park is Assistant Professor of English at Vassar College. She is the author of The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England...

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