James G. Basker is the Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, includingTobias Smollett: Critic and JournalistandAmazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660ndash;1810. Nicole Seary is a researcher at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The late Paul-Gabriel Bouceacute;, professor at the University of Paris, wrote and edited many books, includingSexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain.