Description: Myers, of prostitution in Restif de la Bretonne by Rori Bloom, of ruins in Lazzaro Spallanzani by Sabrina Ferri, of Arthur Murphy's female characters by Barbara Mackey King, and of recent film adaptations of the century's masterworks by Karen Gevirtz.
Brief description: Timothy Erwin is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He also edited volumes 28-30 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.