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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
  

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The volume is divided into three parts exploring formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy. Each of these three parts is structured around the same themes, including globalization, nationhood, technology, commerce, science, and lifestyles. This allows the Companion to capitalize on cutting-edge scholarship without obscuring traditional parameters for the study of the eighteenth-century novel, such as narrative authority, print culture, and the rise of the novel as a pan-European phenomenon.

The Companion as a whole furnishes readers with an exemplary cultural studies methodology and a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts, and keeps them abreast of current critical trends in a field that has changed dramatically over the past decade.

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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 McDowell
 
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

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