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EDGAR F. HARDEN received the AB degree from Princeton University and the AM and PhD degrees from Harvard University. Since 1966 he has taught at Simon Fraser University, where he is Emeritus Professor of English. He has published on Browning, Trollope and especially Thackeray in journals that include _Victorian Poetry; PMLA; Nineteenth-Century Fiction; Journal of English and German Philology; Huntington Library Quarterly; Studies in English Literature 1500-1900_ ; and _Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America_. He is also the author of _The Emergence of Thackeray's Serial Fiction; Thackeray's 'English Humourists' and 'Four Georges'_ ; and _'Vanity Fair': A Novel Without a Hero - A Reader's Companion_ ; and he has edited _Thackeray's Henry Esmond; Annotations for the Selected Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: A Supplement; A Checklist of Contributions by William Makepeace Thackeray to Newspapers, Periodicals, Books and Serial Part Issues, 1828-1864; Selected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray; Thackeray the Writer: From Journalism to 'Vanity Fair'_ ; and _Thackeray the Writer: From 'Pendennis' to 'Denis Duval'_. He has been awarded fellowships and research grants by the Canada Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.