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Nancy Armstrong is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel; Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism; How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism 111 9–1900 , and (with Leonard Tennenhouse), The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the History of Personal Life . She is also the editor of the journal NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction . Barbara M. Benedict is the Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, CT. She has written three monographs: Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745–1800 (1994); Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies (1996); and Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Enquiry (2001). She has edited Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, 1100–1800, Vol. 4: Wilkes and the Late Eighteenth Century , and coedited (with Deidre LeFaye) Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (2006). Linda Bree is the Literature Publisher at Cambridge University Press and author of a number of books and articles on eighteenth-century writers. She is editor of Persuasion (1998), and coeditor (with Janet Todd) of the Later Manuscripts volume (2008) in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen ... log in or subscribe to read full text