Back MatterSource: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Mar., 1982), pp. 507-508Published by: University of California PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3044785 .

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Contributors to this Issue James E. Caron is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the University of

Oregon. His article for NCF is part of an investigation into nineteenth- century American humor which focuses on the development of the tall tale as a specific narrative genre.

Marjorie Garson is a lecturer in English at the University of Toron- to. Another article on Henry Esmond will appear in the 1983 volume of English Studies in Canada.

B. M. Gray is Lecturer in English in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of London, and a postgraduate research student, Birkbeck College, University of London. A recipient of the Frank New- ton prize in English, her field of research is the cultural milieu of George Eliot.

Nancy Pell is serving as an Administrative Intern in the Office of Affirmative Action, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of an earlier article in NCF, "Resistance, Rebellion, and Mar- riage: The Economics of Jane Eyre" in the March 1977 issue.

Alistair M. Duckworth, Professor of English, University of Florida, is the author of The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Aus- ten's Novels (1971) and articles on Austen, Scott, and Dickens.

Edwin M. Eigner is Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, and the author of The Metaphysical Novel in England and America: Dickens, Bulwer, Melville, and Hawthorne (1978).

R. D. McMaster is Professor of English, University of Alberta, and co-author with Juliet McMaster of The Novel from Sterne to James: Essays on the Relation of Literature to Life (1981). He is currently working on Trollope and the law.

Maximillian E. Novak, Professor of English, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles, is the author of books on Defoe and articles and reviews on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction. He is now work- ing on dreams and time in Gothic fiction.

H. Daniel Peck is Associate Professor of English, Vassar College. The author of A World by Itself: The Pastoral Moment in Cooper's Fiction (1977), he is working on a book-length study of Thoreau.

Thomas Pinney, Professor of English, Pomona College, and the editor of Essays of George Eliot (1963) and the Letters of Macaulay (1974), is at present editing the letters of Rudyard Kipling.

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Henry Nash Smith is Professor of English, Emeritus, at the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers (1978).

Martha Vicinus, Professor of English, University of Michigan, is the author of The Industrial Muse (1974) and the editor of Suffer and Be Still (1972) and A Widening Sphere (1977). She is currently com- pleting a book on single women in England during the years 1850-1920.

Paul Zietlow, Professor of English, Indiana University, is the author of Moments of Vision: The Poetry of Thomas Hardy (1974) and reviews and essays on Hardy and other nineteenth-century British authors.

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J. Hils Milier opens seven bostoineptaon Fiction and Rkpetition showing how repetition both Seven Englis;h Novels creates meaning, and at the

Hillis Miller hNovsame time prohibits the identi- J. Hillis Miller fication of a single meaning In his first book in ten years, for any of the novels.

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Gissing A Life in Books JOHN HALPERIN. Writers' lives are rarely as interesting as their books. The life of George Gissing (1857-1903) is an exception. Giss- ing acted out in life the things he wrote about, and provided a bizarre example of how art and life can interact and have an impact upon each other. In this absorbing new biography, John Halperin draws on unpublished letters, Gissing's diaries, and other private papers to construct the portrait of a man solidly entrenched in his time, thoroughly Victorian, and yet a precursor of much that was to preoccupy the twentieth century April 1982 448 pp.; 12 halftones $29.95

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The Woodlanders THOMAS HARDY; edited by DALE KRAMER. This is the first critical edition of a Hardy novel to be published following the lapse of his copyrights. The text is based on a collation of the novel's man- uscript and all printed versions that appeared during Hardy's life- time. Included are a full historical introduction and an apparatus containing discarded words from the manuscript and the printed versions. 1981 506 pp. $74.00

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