About the Author

Howard Anderson is Professor of English at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and taught previously at Indiana University. He has been the recipient of grants from the American Philosophical Society and the Indiana University Foundation. Professor Anderson is the editor of The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century and of M. G. Lewisís The Monk and the co-editor of Studies in Criticism and Aesthetics, 1660-1800.