'April London's fascinating study of the eighteenth-century novel offers a sustained investigation of the 'ways in which the signal importance of property to the eighteenth century is both affirmed and complicated when women are included in the account.' Review of English Studies

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Samuel Richardson and Georgic: Introduction; 1. Clarissa and the georgic mode; 2. Making meaning as constructive labor; 3. Wicked confederacies; 4. 'The work of bodies': reading, writing and documents; Part II. Pastoral: Introduction; 5. The Man of Feeling; 6. Colonial narratives: Charles Wentworth and The Female American; Part III. Community and Confederacy: Introduction; 7. Versions of community: William Dodd, Sarah Scott, Clara Reeve; 8. Confederacies of women: Phebe Gibbes and John Trusler; Part IV. The Politics of Reading: Introduction; 9. The discourse of manliness: Samuel Jackson Pratt and Robert Bage; 10. The gendering of radical representation; 11. History, romance, and the anti-Jacobins' 'common sense'; 12. Jane West and the politics of reading; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'April London's fascinating study of the eighteenth-century novel offers a sustained investigation of the 'ways in which the signal importance of property to the eighteenth century is both affirmed and complicated when women are included in the account.' Review of English Studies

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Samuel Richardson and Georgic: Introduction; 1. Clarissa and the georgic mode; 2. Making meaning as constructive labor; 3. Wicked confederacies; 4. 'The work of bodies': reading, writing and documents; Part II. Pastoral: Introduction; 5. The Man of Feeling; 6. Colonial narratives: Charles Wentworth and The Female American; Part III. Community and Confederacy: Introduction; 7. Versions of community: William Dodd, Sarah Scott, Clara Reeve; 8. Confederacies of women: Phebe Gibbes and John Trusler; Part IV. The Politics of Reading: Introduction; 9. The discourse of manliness: Samuel Jackson Pratt and Robert Bage; 10. The gendering of radical representation; 11. History, romance, and the anti-Jacobins' 'common sense'; 12. Jane West and the politics of reading; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'April London's fascinating study of the eighteenth-century novel offers a sustained investigation of the 'ways in which the signal importance of property to the eighteenth century is both affirmed and complicated when women are included in the account.' Review of English Studies

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Samuel Richardson and Georgic: Introduction; 1. Clarissa and the georgic mode; 2. Making meaning as constructive labor; 3. Wicked confederacies; 4. 'The work of bodies': reading, writing and documents; Part II. Pastoral: Introduction; 5. The Man of Feeling; 6. Colonial narratives: Charles Wentworth and The Female American; Part III. Community and Confederacy: Introduction; 7. Versions of community: William Dodd, Sarah Scott, Clara Reeve; 8. Confederacies of women: Phebe Gibbes and John Trusler; Part IV. The Politics of Reading: Introduction; 9. The discourse of manliness: Samuel Jackson Pratt and Robert Bage; 10. The gendering of radical representation; 11. History, romance, and the anti-Jacobins' 'common sense'; 12. Jane West and the politics of reading; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.