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Notes on Contributors

Antony Hammond, Professor of English at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, is co-editor of a new edition of John Webster shortly to be published by the Cambridge University Press.

Doreen Delvecchio completed her Ph.D. at McMaster University in 1987 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. She is also a Research Associate of the Cambridge Edition of Webster.

G. Thomas Tanselle, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, teaches bibliography and editing in the Columbia University English Department and is co-editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville. He is currently president of the Bibliographical Society of America and of the Grolier Club.

Louis Hay presides over the “Conseil des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société” and directs the “Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes” at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. As a specialist in the manuscripts of 19th- and 20th-century writers, he is concerned with the interconnection of textual and literary criticism according tot he discipline known as critique génetique.

Gerhard Neumann was Professor of German Literature at the universities of Bonn, Erlangen, and Freiburg/Breisgau before his recent appointment to the chair at the University of Munich. He has published extensively on German literature of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and is a member of the international team of editors of the critical Kafka edition.

Klaus Hurlebusch is co-editor of the historical-critical edition of the works and letters of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (Berlin and New York, 1974-) at the University Library of Hamburg. His research and publications focus on 18th-century German literature, German expressionism, and editorial theory and practice.

Siegfried Scheibe, Academy of Sciences of GDR, Central Institute of History of Literature, Berlin (GDR), is leader of the Group "Textology." He has edited works of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Epen, Dichtung und Wahrheit), philosophical works and letters of Georg Forster, and works of Christian Fürchtgott Gellert (Fabeln und Erzählungen, Schriften zur Theorie und Geschichte der Fabel), and is editor of Briefwechsel Wielands. He has published papers on theoretical and practical problems of editing.

Frederick Burkhardt is President-Emeritus of the American Council of


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Learned Societies, General Editor of The Works of William James, and co-editor of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin.

John M. Robson is a University Professor and member of the Department of English at the University of Toronto, where he has taught since 1958. General and Textual Editor of the Collected Works of J. S. Mill (25 vols. to date), he is Honorary Editor of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of many editorial advisory committees. He has published extensively on 19th-century authors and themes.

A. S. G. Edwards is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, General Editor of the Index of Middle English Prose, and Vice President of the Renaissance Text Society. He is currently completing an edition of the English Poems of Thomas More (for the Yale Edition) and co-editing Chaucer's House of Fame (for the Variorum).

Ralph Hanna III, Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, has edited a number of Middle English and Anglo-Latin works; he remains interested in the relationship of book production and literary history.

Tim William Machan is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of Techniques of Translation: Chaucer's 'Boece' and a co-editor, with A. J. Minnis, of the Boece for the Variorum Chaucer.

Richard F. Green studied at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He has taught at several Canadian universities and is currently Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Western Ontario. He has published Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages (1980), and a number of articles in such journals as The Library, Speculum, The British Library Journal, and The English Historical Review.

Paul Werstine, Associate Professor of English, King's College and the Graduate School of the University of Western Ontario, is working on the New Variorum edition of Romeo and Juliet.

Arthur Sherbo, Emeritus Professor of English at Michigan State University, is making a special study of eighteenth-century periodicals.

Dennis Todd teaches English at Georgetown University. He has written articles on Swift, Pope, and Hogarth, and is currently completing a book-length study of the Mary Toft incident.

Conor Fahy is Emeritus Professor of Italian, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written extensively on textual bibliography and the editing of Italian texts, mainly 16th century; a selection of these studies has recently been published in Italy.

G. E. Bentley, Jr., of the University of Toronto, has published books on William Blake, John Flaxman, and George Cumberland, and is completing works on the illustrated-book publishers J. F. Du Rovery, The Edwardses of Halifax, Thomas Macklin, and Robert Bowyer.

Louis Daniel Brodsky's poetry has appeared in a number of periodicals.


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His twelfth book of poems, Mississippi Vistas (1983), Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen by William Faulkner (1987), and Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume V: Manuscripts and Documents (1988) have been published by the University Press of Mississippi, the last two co-edited with Robert W. Hamblin.