Geoffrey SillGeoffrey Sill is Associate Professor of English and Chair of his department at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. He is the author of Defoe and the Idea of Fiction (1983) and the editor of Walt Whitman of Mickle Street (1994) and other books. e is the Defoe editor of The Scriblerian and an active member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Read More Read Less