Introduction; 1. Review criticism and reading: 1749-75; 2. 'I wrote not to be fed but to be famous' Laurence Sterne; 3. 'He never gives us nothis that's low' Oliver Goldsmith; 4. 'It is better to be envied than despised' Tobias Smollett; 5. 'Our last expedient': female literary careers; Notes; Works cited; Index.
