Elizabeth Kraft is professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is author of "Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction" (1992), "Laurence Sterne Revisited" (1996), and "Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire 1684-1814" (2008). She has edited and coedited works by Charlotte Smith, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Samuel Richardson.