A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and CultureISBN: 978-1-4051-0157-8
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568 pages
December 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
Catherine Ingrassia
Shared Bibliography 18
PART ONE Formative Influences 23
1. "I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse
about it": Crusoe's Farther Adventures and the Unwritten History of
the Novel 25
Robert Markley
2. Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the
Eighteenth-Century Novel 48
Srinivas Aravamudan
3. Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in
Eighteenth-Century Britain 75
Ros Ballaster
4. Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the
Eighteenth-Century Novel 97
Elizabeth Bohls
5. Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and
Eighteenth-Century Fiction 117
Robert A. Erickson
6. Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories,
1660–1800 140
Toni Bowers
PART TWO The World of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 165
7. Why Fanny Can’t Read: Joseph Andrews and the
(Ir)relevance of Literacy 167
Paula McDowell
8. Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe,
Goldsmith, and Scott 191
Charlotte Sussman
9. The Erotics of the Novel 214
James Grantham Turner
10. The Original American Novel, or, The American Origin of the
Novel 235
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
11. New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza
Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719–1725 261
Kathryn R. King
12. Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book
Reviews 276
Laura Runge
13. Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 299
Devoney Looser
14. Joy and Happiness 321
Adam Potkay
PART THREE The Novel's Modern Legacy 341
15. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed
Modesty 343
Christopher Flint
16. An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century
Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and
the Question of Value 365
John Richetti
17. Queer Gothic 383
George E. Haggerty
18. Conversable Fictions 399
Kathryn Sutherland
19. Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character
Sketch in the Novel 419
Roxann Wheeler
20. Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in
Eighteenth-Century Fiction 441
Ruth Perry
21. Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots? 459
Carol Houlihan Flynn
22. The Novel Body Politic 481
Susan S. Lanser
23. Literary Culture as Immediate Reality 504
Paula R. Backscheider
Index 539