{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-eighteenthcentury-english-novel-and-culture-9781405192453","title":"A Companion to the EighteenthCentury English","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel\u003c\/i\u003e furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFurnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eForegrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders both canonical and non-canonical literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A team of two dozen prominent scholars ... .Here report on the state of the art in 18th century novel studies. Nearly all the work is cutting edge, and almost every page challenges conventional wisdom ... .Specialists in the early novel will find this wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated work provocative. Highly recommended.\" \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eEditors Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia have assembled an impressive collection of authors … .Visiting or revisiting a complex cultural topography\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eECF\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Variety of texts treated in this volume is rich, unapologetic, and one of its real pleasures.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations viii  \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatherine Ingrassia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShared Bibliography 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eFormative Influences 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. \"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\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Markley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Fiction\/Translation\/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSrinivas Aravamudan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain 75\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRos Ballaster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 97\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bohls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Fiction 117\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert A. Erickson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660–1800 140\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eToni Bowers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe World of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 165\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Why Fanny Can’t Read: Joseph Andrews and the (Ir)relevance of Literacy 167\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaula McDowell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott 191\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharlotte Sussman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Erotics of the Novel 214\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Grantham Turner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Original American Novel, or, The American Origin of the Novel 235\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Maddock Dillon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719–1725 261\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathryn R. King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews 276\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaura Runge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 299\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDevoney Looser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Joy and Happiness 321\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAdam Potkay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Novel's Modern Legacy 341\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty 343\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Flint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value 365\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Richetti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Queer Gothic 383\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge E. Haggerty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Conversable Fictions 399\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathryn Sutherland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character Sketch in the Novel 419\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoxann Wheeler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 441\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRuth Perry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots? 459\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarol Houlihan Flynn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. The Novel Body Politic 481\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan S. Lanser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Literary Culture as Immediate Reality 504\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaula R. 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