Companion to the Eighteenth–Century English Novel and Culture
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A Companion to the Eighteenth–century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth–century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts.
An up–to–date resource for the study of the eighteenth–century novel
Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth–century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context
Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty–first century
Explores formative influences on the eighteenth–century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy
Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting–edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science
Considers both canonical and non–canonical literature
Specificaties
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<p>Notes on Contributors x</p>
<p>Introduction 1<br /> Catherine Ingrassia</p>
<p>Shared Bibliography 18</p>
<p>PART ONE Formative Influences 23</p>
<p>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<br /> Robert Markley</p>
<p>2. Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth–Century Novel 48<br /> Srinivas Aravamudan</p>
<p>3. Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth–Century Britain 75<br /> Ros Ballaster</p>
<p>4. Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth–Century Novel 97<br /> Elizabeth Bohls</p>
<p>5. Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and Eighteenth–Century Fiction 117<br /> Robert A. Erickson</p>
<p>6. Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660 1800 140<br /> Toni Bowers</p>
<p>PART TWO The World of the Eighteenth–Century Novel 165</p>
<p>7. Why Fanny Can t Read: Joseph Andrews and the (Ir)relevance of Literacy 167<br /> Paula McDowell</p>
<p>8. Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott 191<br /> Charlotte Sussman</p>
<p>9. The Erotics of the Novel 214<br /> James Grantham Turner</p>
<p>10. The Original American Novel, or, The American Origin of the Novel 235<br /> Elizabeth Maddock Dillon</p>
<p>11. New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719 1725 261<br /> Kathryn R. King</p>
<p>12. Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth–Century Book Reviews 276<br /> Laura Runge</p>
<p>13. Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth–Century Novel 299<br /> Devoney Looser</p>
<p>14. Joy and Happiness 321<br /> Adam Potkay</p>
<p>PART THREE The Novel′s Modern Legacy 341</p>
<p>15. The Eighteenth–Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty 343<br /> Christopher Flint</p>
<p>16. An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth–Century Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value 365<br /> John Richetti</p>
<p>17. Queer Gothic 383<br /> George E. Haggerty</p>
<p>18. Conversable Fictions 399<br /> Kathryn Sutherland</p>
<p>19. Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character Sketch in the Novel 419<br /> Roxann Wheeler</p>
<p>20. Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth–Century Fiction 441<br /> Ruth Perry</p>
<p>21. Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots? 459<br /> Carol Houlihan Flynn</p>
<p>22. The Novel Body Politic 481<br /> Susan S. Lanser</p>
<p>23. Literary Culture as Immediate Reality 504<br /> Paula R. Backscheider</p>
<p>Index 539</p>