ESC: English Studies in Canada

CONTRIBUTORS kathryn chittick is the author of Dickens and the 1830s (1990) and The Critical Reception of Charles Dickens 1832-1841 (1989). She is currently working on an anthology of literary criticism of the 1820s and 1830s. marjorie garson has published articles on Swift, Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, and Keats and a book on Hardy (Hardy’s Fables of Integrity: Woman, Body, Text, 1991). She is interested in narrative and narrative theory and is currently teaching courses on Victorian fiction and on The Faerie Queene. isobel grundy is Henry Marshall Tory Professor at the University of Alberta. Her publications include an edition (with Robert Halsband) of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Essays and Poems (1977, rev. 1993); Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness (1986); and The Feminist Companion to Lit­ erature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present (with Virginia Blain and Patricia Clements, 1990). She has returned to research on Montagu, and is at work on a new biography. marco loverso teaches the novel, critical theory, and essay writing. He has published articles on Sterne, Dr. Johnson, and a number of Canadian novelists, including Adele Wiseman, Robertson Davies, and Margaret At­ wood. heather mac fadyen is currently working on a project that explores the role that the representation of women’s literary practices played in late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century British debates about the nature of authority. shawn malley is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on archaeology in Victorian literature. He has published articles on Walter Pater and George Eliot. dominic manganiello is the author of Joyce’s Politics (1980) and T.S. Eliot and Dante (1989). He is currently working on a study of Dante’s impact on the modern literary imagination. t .j. matheson teaches courses on American literature and on modern satire. He has published articles on a number of American, British, and Canadian authors, and is presently engaged in an examination of the science fiction film and its response to technology. Andrew mc murry. who lives in Kitchener, Ontario, is currently engaged in doctoral research on the role of nature in nineteenth-century American literature, and is particularly interested in modem readings of Emerson and Thoreau in the light of an emerging theory of environmental and cultural criticism. He has published an article, “Derrida’s Bidet,” deeding with postmodernism, ecological disaster, and notions of “culpability,” in Borderlines, and recently presented a paper on Sarah Orne Jewett and ecofeminism at the conference of the Society for Literature and Science in New Orleans. tom middlebro’ is interested in nineteenth-century British theory and fiction, and in Canadian literature. j. russell perkin is the author of A Reception-History of George Eliot’s Fic­ tion (1990), and has recently published articles on Thackeray and on “George Sandism” in the Victorian novel. d.f. rowan, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Brunswick, lists as his primary area of research the physical structure of the Elizabethan playhouse. Currently he is the Principal Investigator of The Elizabethan Stage Directors Project, and an Associate Editor of the New Variorum Midsummer Night’s Dream. terry g . sherwood is the author of Fulfilling the Circle: A Study of John Donne’s Thought (1984) and Herbert’s Prayerful Art (1989). claire wilkshire includes among her research interests the Canadian short story and feminist theory. ...