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Notes on Contributors
Gerald P. Tyson, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, is currently preparing a study of Joseph Johnson and his influence on literature and publishing in the late eighteenth century.
Richmond P. Bond, Kenan Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Carolina, has long specialized in thte early English newspaper and periodical. His most recent book is The Tatler: The Making of a Literary Journal. Marjorie N. Bond has published socio-economic studies of the South, and her research has included various eighteenth-century English topics, such as the printer Samuel Keimer, the Modern Prophets, and the change in the calendar.
A. I. Doyle is Reader in Bibliography and Keeper of Rare Books at the University of Durham (England). At present he is trying to complete a handbook on Later Middle English Manuscripts.
George B. Pace is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has recently completed (draft) a full textual variorum of Chaucer's Short Poems, for "Variorum Chaucer."
Steven W. May is an Associate Professor of English at Georgetown College, Kentucky, whose primary research interest is in the Elizabethan Court poets.
John O'Connor, Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, is continuing his work on the First Folio compositors; he is also working on the manuscript collection of Federal Theater Plays at the National Archives and the Library of Congress.
Shirley Van Marter, Assistant Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine, is completing her book on Richardson's novels.
Kenneth W. Graham, an Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph, has published a number of articles on Beckford's Vathek. He is at present engaged in studies of other crepuscular subjects, notably the gothic and grotesque.
G. Thomas Tanselle, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, is Bibliographical Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville and is preparing a descriptive bibliography of Melville.
Hans Zeller, Professor of German Literature at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland, is the editor of the Poems (vols. 1-7) in the historical-critical edition of the complete works (Sämtliche Werke) of the Swiss poet and writer Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898), Bern: BÜmpliz 1958-. (Poems vols. 1-3 published 1963-1967). Together with Gunter Martens, he edited the collection of essays Texte und Varianten, Probleme ihrer Edition und Interpretation, MÜnchen 1971. Apart from continuing to prepare for publication vols. 4-7 of the Meyer edition, he is at present working on an introduction to textual and editorial problems, EinfÜhrung in die Editionswissenschaft der neueren Literatur.
A. S. G. Edwards, Assistant Professor of English, University of Victoria, is at present engaged on an edition of George Cavendish's Metrical Visions and a bibliographical study of early English libertine literature.
J. M. Hedley is a graduate student in the Department of English, Unviersity of Victoria.
Ernest W. Sullivan, II, Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University, is well along in the preparation of a critical edition of Donne's Biathanatos.
Edward L. Saslow, Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, is writing a study of Dryden in the 1680's.
A. B. England, Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, has written several articles on eighteenth-century literature, and is at present studying the nature and theory of burlesque poetry in the eighteenth century.
Rodney L. Hayley has recently taken up a lecturing position in the English Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Shirley Strum Kenny, Chairman of the English Department, University of Maryland, and Editor of The Plays of Richard Steele, is editing The Works of George Farquhar for Clarendon Press and is working on a book on comedy from 1695 to 1710.
Pat Rogers, Professor of English at the University College of North Wales; lately relinquished post as Secretary of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Editing Swift's poems (Penguin English Poets) and Defoe's New Voyage Round the World. Has collected the letters and documents of Edmund Curll, which needs only a publisher. Forthcoming articles include a study of the making of Defoe's Tour (Bulletin of the New York Public Library) and a new text for eighteen letters of Pope, hitherto printed from inaccurate copies.
Thomas R. Cleary, Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, is presently completing a book on Fielding's Political Writings.
William C. Woodson, Associate Professor at Illinois State University, teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, and is co-editor of the forthcoming New Variorum Macbeth.
Brian Finney is at the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of London. In 1973 he completed a Ph.D. on 'The Artistic Development of D. H. Lawrence as a Writer of Shorter Fiction'. He was a founder member of The London Review and has published a short book on Beckett's later fiction (Since How It Is) and articles on Lawrence and Dylan Thomas. He is currently editing a collection of essays on Modernism with Frank Kermode and hopes to have published a study of Lawrence's shorter fiction by Princeton University Press next year.
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