A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture

by Backscheider, Paula R.; Ingrassia, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9781405101578
• ISBN10: 1405101571
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

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 (1992).

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).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Notes on Contributors	x
Introduction	1	(17)
Catherine Ingrassia
Shared Bibliography	18	(5)
PART ONE Formative Influences	23	(142)
``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	(23)
Robert Markley
Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel	48	(27)
Srinivas Aravamudan
Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain	75	(22)
Ros Ballaster
Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel	97	(20)
Elizabeth Bohls
Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Fiction	117	(23)
Robert A. Erickson
Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660--1800	140	(25)
Toni Bowers
PART TWO The World of the Eighteenth-Century Novel	165	(176)
Why Fanny Can't Read: Joseph Andrews and the (Ir)relevance of Literacy	167	(24)
Paula McDowell
Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott	191	(23)
Charlotte Sussman
The Erotics of the Novel	214	(21)
James Grantham Turner
The Original American Novel, or, The American Origin of the Novel	235	(26)
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719--1725	261	(15)
Kathryn R. King
Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews	276	(23)
Laura Runge
Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel	299	(22)
Devoney Looser
Joy and Happiness	321	(20)
Adam Potkay
PART THREE The Novel's Modern Legacy	341	(198)
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty	343	(22)
Christopher Flint
An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value	365	(18)
John Richetti
Queer Gothic	383	(16)
George E. Haggerty
Conversable Fictions	399	(20)
Kathryn Sutherland
Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character Sketch in the Novel	419	(22)
Roxann Wheeler
Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Fiction	441	(18)
Ruth Perry
Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots?	459	(22)
Carol Houlihan Flynn
The Novel Body Politic	481	(23)
Susan S. Lanser
Literary Culture as Immediate Reality	504	(35)
Paula R. Backscheider
Index	539