BREAN HAMMOND is Professor of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing, including Professional Imaginative Writing in England 1670-1740 (1997). He is a former President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.SHAUN REGAN is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He has published articles on Sterne, print culture, and the culture of politeness. He was formerly a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin.

'A wide-ranging and sophisticated study of the novel that neatly combines a survey of the history and theory of the novel with a series of insightful readings of some of the major works of the eighteenth-century. Best of all, it's unfailingly lively and readable and brings the eighteenth-century novel to life.' - Jack Lynch, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA '...[a] thorough and engaging account of the British novel's evolution over the course of the long eighteenth century...The connections forged by Making the Novel bring the period, in all its delightful weirdness, to life - no mean feat.' - Modern Philology

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Modelling the NovelMissing Parts: Fiction to DefoeNovels and Anti-Novels: Contesting FictionsTeaching Readers to Read: Richardson and FieldingRenewing the Novel: Novelty, Originality, and New DirectionsThe Sympathetic Strain: Sterne and Sentimental FictionNarrating the Nation: Leisure, Luxury, and PolitenessConclusion: Making the Novel, Reading the NovelBibliographyIndex.