Samuel Richardson in Context

Peter Sabor holds the Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies at McGill University, Montréal, where he is Director of the Burney Centre. His publications include, as co-author, Pamela in the Marketplace (Cambridge, 2005) and, as editor, Juvenilia in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (Cambridge, 2006), The Cambridge Companion to Emma (Cambridge, 2015), and The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin (3 volume set, Cambridge, 2016). Betty A. Schellenberg is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. Her publications include Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture (Cambridge, 2016), an edition of Samuel Richardson's Correspondence Primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750–4) (Cambridge, 2015); The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2005); Reconsidering the Bluestockings (co-edited with Nicole Pohl, 2003); and The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740–75 (1996).

'All the essays are lucid and well informed, provocative and engaging, erudite and somehow still accessible to nonspecialists. The book includes 21 illustrations and is printed on fine-quality paper with noticeable attention to details of production, as befits the subject of this study. Both those who have long loved Richardson and those coming to him for the first time will find this volume invaluable for study of his works. Essential.' Choice

• Part I. Life and Works: 1. Portraying the life Thomas Keymer; 2. Publication history Peter Sabor; 3. Correspondence Louise Curran; Part II. Critical Fortunes: 4. Editions Hilary Havens; 5. Contemporary transnational reception Mary Helen McMurran; 6. Reputation Sören Hammerschmidt; 7. Critical reception to 1900 Brian Corman; 8. Critical reception since 1900 Albert J. Rivero; Part III. The Print Trade: 9. The Stationers' Company Ian Gadd; 10. Transnational print trade relations Norbert Schürer; 11. Authorship Betty A. Schellenberg; 12. The literary marketplace Catherine Ingrassia; Part IV. The Book and its Readers: 13. The material book Christopher Flint; 14. Editing Pat Rogers; 15. Reading and readers Eve Tavor Bannet; Part V. Literary Genres and the Arts: 16. The novel April London; 17. Fables and fairy-tales Margaret Anne Doody; 18. Letters Joe Bray; 19. Educational writing Bonnie Latimer; 20. The English language Carol Percy; 21. Salon culture and conversation Markman Ellis; 22. Visual arts Lynn Shepherd; 23. Theatre and drama Darryl P. Domingo; 24. Humour Simon Dickie; Part VI. Social Structures and Social Life: 25. Money and economics Edward Copeland; 26. The law Simon Stern; 27. Family Toni Bowers; 28. Gender Kathleen M. Oliver; 29. Sexuality James Grantham Turner; 30. Medicine and health Heather Meek; 31. Death and mourning culture Peter Walmsley; 32. London Linda Bree; 33. Sentiment and sensibility Katherine Binhammer; 34. Religion E. Derek Taylor; 35. Social hierarchy and social mobility Karen Lipsedge; 36. Politics Howard D. Weinbrot; 37. Nationalism Lisa O'Connell.