Zouheir Jamoussi was born in 1941 in Sfax (Tunisia). He studied English literature and history at the universities of Tunis, Wisconsin (Madison, USA) and Paris (Sorbonne). His teaching from 1971 to 2002 at the university of Tunis mainly focused on eighteenth-century British literature and history. He is the author of Primogeniture and Entail in England : A Survey of their History and Representation in Literature (1999), La Liberté dans l'Oeuvre de Defoe: Entre la réalité et la fiction (2001) and The Snare in the Constitution: Defoe and Swift on Liberty (2009) .