Eighteenth-Century Genre And Culture Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms : Essays in Honor of J. Paul Hunter

by Todd, Dennis; Wall, Cynthia; Hunter, Paul J.

• ISBN13: 9780874137590
• ISBN10: 0874137594
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Summary

This collection of essays, including contributions by Paula Backscheider, Martin C. Battestin, and Patricia Meyer Spacks -- examines the relationships between history, literary forms, and the cultural contexts of British literature from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. Topics include print culture and the works of Mary, Lady Chudleigh; the politics of early amatory fiction; Susanna Centlivre's use of plot; novels by women between 1760 and 1788; and the connection between gender and narrative form in the criminal biographies of the 1770s.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(8)
Before Print Culture: Mary, Lady Chudleigh, and the Assimilation of the Book	15	(21)
Janine Barchas
The Novel before Novels (with a Glance at Mary Hearne's Fables of Desertion)	36	(22)
Kathryn R. King
Secular Crusoe: The Reluctant Pilgrim Re-Visited	58	(21)
John Richetti
Jonathan Swift and the Idea of History	79	(17)
Joseph M. Levine
Dr. Johnson and the Case of Harry Fielding	96	(18)
Martin C. Battestin
The Habits of Highly Effective People: Pedagogy and the Problem of Amelia	114	(22)
Timothy Dykstal
Thoughts on Adventurers: Fielding to Byron	136	(14)
Claude Rawson
Ambiguous Practices	150	(15)
Patricia Meyer Spacks
Busy Bodies: The Plots of Susanna Centlivre	165	(25)
John O'Brien
Fashioning Novels, Novelizing Fashions	190	(28)
Paula R. Backscheider
Feminine Sexuality, Class Identity, and Narrative Form in the Newgate Calendars	218	(18)
Kristina Straub
Enlightenment Fiction and the Scientific Hypothesis	236	(25)
John Bender
The Rhetoric of Description and the Spaces of Things	261	(19)
Cynthia Wall
Political Poetry	280	(22)
Michael McKeon
Notes on Contributors	302	(4)
A Bibliography	306	(4)
J. Paul Hunter
Index	310