Novel and Romance 1700-1800 (Routledge Revivals)

Ioan Williams Lecturer in English Literature, University of Warwick

• INTRODUCTION 1 From the translator’s Preface to Artamène (1691) 2 Preface to Incognita (1691) 3 From The Athenian Mercury (1692) 4 From the translator’s Preface to Cassandre (1703) 5 Preface to The Secret History of Queen Zarah (1705) 6 (a) From the Essay on Shakespeare (1712) and (b), from Remarks upon Cato, John Dennis (1713) 7 From the Preface to The Lover’s Secretary (1713) 8 From The History of Romances (1715) 9 Preface to Robinson Crusoe (1719) 10 From An Epistle to Daniel Defoe (1719) 11 Preface to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) 12 From the Postcript to An Epistle to Daniel Defoe (1719) 13 Preface to A Select Collection of Novels (1720) 14 Preface to Colonel Jack (1722) 15 Preface to Moll Flanders (1722) 16 From the Dedication of Lasselia (1723) 17 Preface to Roxana (1724) 18 From The Tea-Table (1725) 19 Preface to The Fair Hebrew (1729) 20 From the Preface to The Finish’d Rake (1733) 21 From the Preface to The Disguis’d Prince (1733) 22 Preface to The Life and Adventures of Mr. Cleveland (1734–5) 23 Introductory material to Pamela (1740) 24 From a letter of Philip Dormer Stanhope (1740–1?) 25 Introductory material to Pamela (1741) 26 Preface to Volume I of Clarissa Harlowe (1747) 27 Preface to Roderick Random (1748) 28 Preface to Volume III of Clarissa Harlowe (1748) 29 From a letter of Elisabeth Carter (1749) 30 From a review of Tom Jones (1749) 31 ‘A Censure on the present reigning taste for Novels’ (1749) 32 An account of Clarissa and Richardson’s reply (1749) 33 Rambler, 4, Samuel Johnson (1750) 34 From a letter of Mrs. Donellan (1750) 35 From An Essay on the New Species of Writing founded by Mr. Field(1751) 36 From a review of Peregrine Pickle (1751) 37 From a review of Amelia (1751) 38 From the Preface to Clarissa Harlowe (1751) 39 From a letter of Philip Skelton (1751) 40 From a review of Amelia (1751) 41 From a letter of Samuel Richardson (1752) 42 Dedication to The History of Pompey the Little (1752) 43 From The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox (1752) 44 The Adventurer, 4, John Hawkesworth (1752) 45 From a letter of Philip Skelton (1752) 46 The Adventurer, 16, John Hawkesworth (1752) 47 The Adventurer, 18, John Hawkesworth (1753) 48 The World, 19, William Whitehead (1753) 49 Dedication to Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) 50 From a letter of Johannes Stinstra (1753) 51 The World, 79, Richard Berenger (1754) 52 A letter written in the character of Lien Chi Altangi (1760) 53 A dialogue by Elizabeth Montagu (1760) 54 From a review of The History of Tom Fool (1760) 55 From a letter written in the character of Lien Chi Altangi (1760) 56 From a review of Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761) 57 From a review of Tristram Shandy (1761) 58 From a review of Almoran and Hamet (1761) 59 From a review of Eloisa (1761) 160 ‘On Fictitious History’, from Lectures on Rhetoric, Hugh Blair (1762) 61 From Essay on Poetry and Music, James Beattie (1776) 62 From the Introduction to The Works of Henry Fielding, Arthur Murp(1762) 63 The Prefaces to The Castle of Otranto (1764 and 1765) 64 From Dissertation on the Idea of Universal Poetry, Richard Hurd (1766) 65 From the Gentleman’s Magazine, XXXVII (1767) 66 From the Gentleman’s Magazine, XL (1770) 67 From Something New, Automathes (1772) 68 From a review of De l’Homme, et de la Femme (1773) 69 Three essays by J. and A.L.Aikin (1773) 270 From Volume III of The Origin and Progress of Language, Lord Mon[1]boddo (1776) 71 Preface to Liberal Opinions, Samuel Pratt (1777) 72 From the Preface to The Old English Baron (1778) 73 Preface to Evelina (1778) 74 ‘On Novel Reading’, Vicessimus Knox (1778) 75 Translator’s Preface to The Sorrows of Werter (1779) 76 From On Fable and Romance, James Beattie (1783) 77 The Lounger, 20, Henry Mackenzie (1785) 78 From The Observer, 27, Richard Cumberland (1785) 79 From A Commentary Illustrating the Poetics, Henry Pye (1786) 80 The Microcosm, 26, George Canning (1787) 81 Olla Podrida, 15, Thomas Monroe (1787) 82 From the Gentleman’s Magazine, LVII (1787) 83 From Winter Evenings, 115, Vicessimus Knox (1788) 84 From a review of Emmeline (1788) 85 Two essays from Variety, Anna Seward (1788) 86 From the Gentleman’s Magazine, LVIII (1788) 87 Three reviews from The Analytical Review, III (1789) 88 Review of The Denial (1790) 89 From a review of The Labyrinths of Life (1791) 90 From a review of Theological, philosophical and moral Essays (1791) 91 From The Analytical Review, XVI (1793) 92 Two reviews from The Analytical Review, XVIII (1794) 93 From a review of The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) 94 From a review of The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) 95 From a review of Caleb Williams (1795) 96 From Henry, Richard Cumberland (1795) 97 From review of Camilla (1796) 98 From a review of The Italian (1797) 99 From A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance, John Moore (1797) 100 Five reviews from The British Critic, X (1797) 101 From a review of Santa Maria (1798)