Contributors

Contributors Peter Albrecht teaches at the Technische Universitat in Brunswick, Germany. He is currently working on a history of the poor in eighteenth-century Germany. He has just published an article on the “national costume” debate conducted in Germany in the eighteenth century. Janet Gurkin Altman, of the University of Iowa, has written on epistolary fictions in Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form (1982) and on the publication of writers’ correspondences in “The Letter Book as a Literary Institution 1539-1789,” Yale French Studies 71 (1986). Her article in this volume is part of a longer inquiry into the role of letter books in cultural history. Jeffrey Barnouw contributed a number of papers on Hobbes for the 400th anniversary of his birth in 1988. He is working on a longer study of Hobbes, and another on the emergence of aesthetics, taken as essentially concerned with sensation and feeling, and on the survival or revival of this original eighteenth-century sense of aesthetics in American pragmatism. Hamilton Beck, of Wabash College, has recently published The Elusive “I" in the Novel: Hippel, Sterne, Diderot, Kant (New York, Berne: Peter Lang, 1987). A. Peter Brown, Professor of Music at Indiana University, has recently published Performing Haydn's the Creation and Joseph Haydn's Keyboard Music: Sources and Style. J. Douglas Canfield is director of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Arizona and has recently finished a book entitled, Word as Bond in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration. Lois A. Chaber, having taught at SUNY-Albany and Qatar University on the Arabian Gulf, is currently an unaffiliated scholar researching two articles on Sir Charles Grandison in London. Her recent publications are various interdisciplinary articles on the eighteenth-century novel. Kevin L. Cope has published articles on several topics in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, and is currently working on a book on the manipulation of genre in writers from Bunyan to Cowper. Patricia Craddock published Edward Gibbon: A Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall) in June 1987. The second volume of her biography, Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian, is in press at Johns Hopkins and is scheduled for 489 490 / Contributors publication late in 1988 or early in 1989. She will become chair of the Department of English at the University of Florida in August 1988. Laura A. Curtis, of the department of Comparative Literature at Princeton, is currently working on Defoe’s prose style. Ted A. Emery, Assistant Professor of Italian at New York University, has published articles on eighteenth-century Italian literature in Studi Goldoniani, Italica, and the Italian Quarterly. With Albert Bermel, he had edited and translated The Theatrical Tales ofCarlo Gozzi, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in 1988. Timothy Erwin, Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, is writing a book about the critical term ‘design’ and other uses of intentional/structural discourse. Gloria Flaherty, Professor of German and Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities, the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been a Vice-President and for 1987-88 President of ASECS. Julie C. Hayes, who teaches French at the University of Richmond, has published several articles on Diderot and Sade. She is currently working on a book on the sentimental theater in eighteenth-century France. Thomas Jemielity, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, is working on a study of satire in the Hebrew prophets. He has written on Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands, on the Vanity of Human Wishes, on Boswell’s Hebrides Journal, on Evelyn Waugh, and on the medieval lyric, “I Sing of a Maiden.” Danielle Johnson-Cousin is presently Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of French at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of several articles on Germaine de Stael and the Coppet group, and is at work on a book, Madame de Stael et le theatre, which will include Stael’s hitherto unpublished plays of the Revolutionary period. Joanne Lewis is working on a book on Smollett and popular drama. She is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton. Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink, Associate Professor for Romance and Comparative...