The eighteenth-century novel

Author(s)

• Spencer, Susan S.
• Rivero, Albert J.
• Justice, George
• Collins, Margo
• Kincade, Kit

Bibliographic Information

The eighteenth-century novel

Susan Spencer, editor ; Margo Collins, book review editor

AMS Press, c2001-

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4
• v. 5
• v. 6-7
• v. 8
• v. 9

Note

Editors of v. 2: Albert J. Rivero, editor ; George Justice, associate editor ; Margo Collins, book review editor

Editors of v. 3-5: Albert J. Rivero, George Justice, editor ; Margo Collins, book review editor

Editors of v. 6-7: Albert J. Rivero, George Justice, editor ; Margo Collins and Kit Kincade, book review editor

Editors of v. 8-9: Albert J. Rivero, George Justice, editor ; Kit Kincade, book review editor

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: set ISBN 9780404646509

Table of Contents

• " 'It stood an object of terror and delight': Sublime Masculinity and the Aesthetics of Disproportion in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure." Mark Blackwell
• "Farewell, Mr. Villars: Cecilia and Frances Burney's 'Inward Monitor.' " Erik Bond
• "Rakes and Races: Art's Imitation of Life in Frances Burney's Evelina." Jeanine Casler
• "The Tyranny of Sentimental Form: Wollstonecraft's Mary and the Gendering of Anxiety." Diane Long Hoeveler
• "The Surrogate Family Plot in the Annesley Case and Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman." Cheryl Nixon
• "Radcliffe's Inquisition and Eighteenth-Century English Legal Practice." Beth Swan
• "Jane Austen and the Discourse of Poverty." David Wheeler
• "Fielding Looks Down: Tom Jones and the Lower Orders." Kay Weeks
• "Clarissa: The Nation Misrul'd." Jennifer Preston Wilson
• "Of Innocence and Experience: Fame, Fortune, and Women's Intellectual Labor in Frances Brooke's The Excursion." Jodi Wyett
• "Beginning Grandison." (First essay in a new annual feature - "Teaching the Eighteenth-Century Novel.)" Albert J. Rivero

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780404646516

Description

The essays in this volume study the prose fiction of the restoration and eighteenth century. Topics covered include ""Encounters with the Algerines"", ""The Development of Epistolary Space in Richardson's 'Clarissa'"" and ""Botany and the Novel of Courtship"".

Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780404646530

Table of Contents

• 'It stood an object of terror and delight': Sublime Masculinity and the Aesthetics of Disproportion in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Mark Blackwell
• ""Farewell, Mr. Villars: Cecilia and Frances Burney's 'Inward Monitor.' "" Erik Bond
• ""Rakes and Races: Art's Imitation of Life in Frances Burney's Evelina."" Jeanine Casler
• ""The Tyranny of Sentimental Form: Wollstonecraft's Mary and the Gendering of Anxiety."" Diane Long Hoeveler
• ""The Surrogate Family Plot in the Annesley Case and Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman."" Cheryl Nixon
• ""Radcliffe's Inquisition and Eighteenth-Century English Legal Practice."" Beth Swan
• ""Jane Austen and the Discourse of Poverty."" David Wheeler
• ""Fielding Looks Down: Tom Jones and the Lower Orders."" Kay Weeks
• ""Clarissa: The Nation Misrul'd."" Jennifer Preston Wilson
• ""Of Innocence and Experience: Fame, Fortune, and Women's Intellectual Labor in Frances Brooke's The Excursion."" Jodi Wyett
• ""Beginning Grandison."" (First essay in a new annual feature - ""Teaching the Eighteenth-Century Novel.)"" Albert J. Rivero

Volume

v. 5 ISBN 9780404646554

Table of Contents

• Susan Spencer, Introduction
• Michael Austin, ""'Jesting with the Truth': Figura, Trace and the Boundaries of Fiction in Robinson Crusoe and its Sequels""
• Lisa Zunshine, ""Caught Unawares by a Benefactor: Embodying the Deserving Object of Charity in the Eighteenth-Century Novel""
• Emily Allen, ""Loss Incommensurable: Economies of Imbalance in Mary Robinson's Walsingham""
• Articles
• Janine Barchas, ""Accounting for Crusoe's Struggles with Sexuality""
• Peter Marbais, ""Roxana and 'my Woman, Amy': Failure of Mutual Recognition in Defoe's Roxana""
• Marta Kvande, ""Jane Barker and Delariviere Manley: Public Women Against the Public Sphere""
• Stephanie Harzewski, ""The Fantomina Phenomenon: Eliza Haywood and the Formation of a Heroine""
• Lincoln Faller, ""The Clarissa Effect""
• Tony Lee, ""Allegories of Mentoring: Johnson and Frances Burney's Cecilia""
• Essaka Joshua, ""Charlotte Smith's Desmond: Romance and the Man of Principle in the Domestic and Public Spheres""
• Scott Gordon, ""Reading Quixotes and Quixotic Readers: Teaching Lennox's Female Quixote"".

Volume

v. 9 ISBN 9780404646592

Description

CONTENTS: Foreword. Marie E. McAllister, "Pox Imagery in Clarissa"; Sarah Eron, "Genius, Muse: Inspiration and Invocation in Fielding's Tom Jones; Hilary Havens, "Patronage in the Novels and Letters of Charlotte Lennox"; Patricia Hamilton, "`The Only Excellence of Falsehood': Rethinking Samuel Johnson's Role in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote"; Bonnie Latimer, "Courting Dominion: Sir Charles Grandison, Sir George Ellison, and the Organizing Principle of Masculinity"; Mercy Cannon, "Productive Lives and Disabled Bodies in Millenium Hall"; Kathryn Ready, "The Lapdog of Luxury and Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; Hannah J. Doherty, "Robert Bage's Novel Merchandise: Commercialism, Gender, and Form in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction; Geremy Carnes, "`Let not religion be named between us': Catholic Struggle and the Religious Context of Feminism in A Simple Story"; Mark Zunac, "The `Deceitful Poison of Hope': Disillusionment and the Critique of the New Philosophy in Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney"; Maximillian E. Novak, "Ideological Tendencies in Three Crusoe Narratives by British Novelists during the Period Following the French Revolution: Charles Dibdin's Hannah Hewit, The Female Crusoe, Maria Edgeworth's Forester, and Frances Burney's The Wanderer"; Lynda A. Hall, "Valuing the Superfluous Spinster: Miss Bates and the Struggle to Remain Visible"; Jarrod Hurlbert, "Exploring Pamela's Textuality in the Classroom: Some Pedagogical Practices". Book Reviews. Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA57299496
• ISBN:
  • 9780404646509
  • 0404646514
  • 0404646522
  • 0404646530
  • 0404646549
  • 9780404646554
  • 9780404646561
  • 9780404646585
  • 9780404646592
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR851
  • DC21 : 823/.509
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism