David E Shuttleton Editor & Author

David E. Shuttleton is Reader in Literature and Medical Culture at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, where he established the Medical Humanities Research Centre. He is the recent author of Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and has written numerous essays specialising in literature and medicine in the long eighteenth century. John A. Dussinger is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois where he taught for 36 years. He is author of The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1974) and In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World (1990), and has written numerous articles and reviews on iconic writers such as Swift, Shaftesbury, Locke, Hume, Middleton, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Johnson and Austen.