Nicholas Seager is Professor of English Literature and Head of the
School of Humanities at Keele University. He has published on
literature of the long eighteenth century, including Bunyan, Swift,
Defoe, Richardson, Johnson, Sterne, Goldsmith, and Austen. He is
the editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel
Defoe (2022), and co-editor of The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century
Fiction (2015) and The Cambridge Companion to
Gulliver's Travels (2023). He has recently completed an edition of
Defoe's The Fortunate Mistress for Oxford World's Classics. J. A.
Downie is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University
of London, where he was
Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1991 to 1995 and Pro-Warden
(Academic) from 1995 to 2002. His books include Robert Harley and
the Press (1979), Jonathan Swift, Political Writer (1984), To
Settle the Succession of the State: Literature and Politics,
1678-1750 (1994), and A Political Biography of Henry Fielding
(2009). He edited two volumes in the Pickering Masters edition of
The Works of Daniel Defoe. He also edited of The Oxford Handbook of
the
Eighteenth-Century Novel (2016).
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