Robert D SpectorROBERT D. SPECTOR is Professor Emeritus of English and coordinator of both the divisions of Humanities and of Communications, Fine and Performing Arts at Long Island University in Brooklyn. Author of more than 400 articles and reviews, he has publishd ten books, nine on eighteenth century topics. Previous books include Smollett's Women: A Study in an Eighteenth-Century Masculine Sensibility (1994), Political Controversy: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Propaganda (1992), Backgrounds to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide to Modern Scholarship (1989), and The English Gothic: A Bibliographic Guide to Writers from Horace Walpole to Mary Shelley (1984), all published by Greenwood. Read More Read Less