A companion to the eighteenth-century English novel and culture / edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia.

• Superior document: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 30
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Backscheider, Paula R.; Ingrassia, Catherine.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 30.
• Physical Description: xiii, 550 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• "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 / Robert Markley
• Fiction/translation/transnation: the secret history of the eighteenth-century novel / Srinivas Aravamudan
• Narrative transmigrations: the oriental tale and the novel in eighteenth-century Britain / Ros Ballaster
• Age of peregrination: travel writing and the eighteenth-century novel / Elizabeth Bohls
• Milton and the poetics of ecstasy in Restoration and eighteenth-century fiction / Robert A. Erickson
• Representing resistance: British seduction stories, 1660-1800 / Toni Bowers
• Why Fanny can't read: Joseph Andrews and the (ir)relevance of literacy / Paula McDowell
• Memory and mobility: fictions of population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott / Charlotte Sussman
• The erotics of the novel / James Grantham Turner
• The original American novel, or, the American origin of the novel / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
• New contexts for early novels by women: the case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719-1725 / Kathryn R. King
• Momentary fame: female novelists in eighteenth-century book reviews / Laura Runge
• Women, old age, and the eighteenth-century novel / Devoney Looser
• Joy and happiness / Adam Potkay
• The eighteenth-century novel and print culture: a proposed modesty / Christopher Flint
• An emerging new canon of the British eighteenth-century novel: feminist criticism, the means of cultural production, and the question of value / John Richetti
• Queer gothic / George E. Haggerty
• Conversable fictions / Kathryn Sutherland
• Racial legacies: the speaking countenance and the character sketch in the novel / Roxann Wheeler
• Home economics: representations of poverty in eighteenth-century fiction / Ruth Perry
• Whatever happened to the Gordon riots? / Carol Houlihan Flynn
• The novel body politic / Susan S. Lanser
• Literary culture as immediate reality / Paula R. Backscheider.