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A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture
Paula R. Backscheider (Edited by), PR Backscheider (Author), Catherine Ingrassia (Edited by)
9781405101578, Wiley
Hardback, published 10 November 2005
568 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 4.4 cm, 1.116 kg
"A team of two dozen prominent scholars ... .Here report on the state of the art in 18th century novel studies. Nearly all the work is cutting edge, and almost every page challenges conventional wisdom ... .Specialists in the early novel will find this wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated work provocative. Highly recommended." CHOICE “Editors Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia have assembled an impressive collection of authors … .Visiting or revisiting a complex cultural topography. ” ECF "The Variety of texts treated in this volume is rich, unapologetic, and one of its real pleasures." The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
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.
List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 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 2. Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 48 3. Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain 75 4. Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 97 5. Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Fiction 117 6. Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660–1800 140 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 8. Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott 191 9. The Erotics of the Novel 214 10. The Original American Novel, or, The American Origin of the Novel 235 11. New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719–1725 261 12. Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews 276 13. Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 299 14. Joy and Happiness 321 PART THREE The Novel's Modern Legacy 341 15. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty 343 16. An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value 365 17. Queer Gothic 383 18. Conversable Fictions 399 19. Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character Sketch in the Novel 419 20. Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 441 21. Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots? 459 22. The Novel Body Politic 481 23. Literary Culture as Immediate Reality 504 Index 539
Catherine Ingrassia
Robert Markley
Srinivas Aravamudan
Ros Ballaster
Elizabeth Bohls
Robert A. Erickson
Toni Bowers
Paula McDowell
Charlotte Sussman
James Grantham Turner
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Kathryn R. King
Laura Runge
Devoney Looser
Adam Potkay
Christopher Flint
John Richetti
George E. Haggerty
Kathryn Sutherland
Roxann Wheeler
Ruth Perry
Carol Houlihan Flynn
Susan S. Lanser
Paula R. Backscheider
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
