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James G Basker Editor & Author

James G. Basker is the Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, USA. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Tobias Smollett: Critic and Journalist and Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660–1810.

The late Paul-Gabriel Boucé, professor at the University of Paris, France wrote and edited many books, including Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

Nicole A. Seary is a researcher at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, USA.