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
Table of Content
List of Illustrations viii
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 Mc Dowell
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
About the author
Paula R. Backscheider is Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar at
Auburn University. A former president of the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, she is best known as the author of
Daniel Defoe: His Life (1989) and Eighteenth-Century
Women Poets and Their Poetry (2005), for which she was
co-winner of the Modern Language Association Lowell Prize.
Catherine Ingrassia is Professor of English at Virginia
Commonwealth University. She is the author of Authorship,
Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England (1998)
and the editor of Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela (2004).
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