Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts

Jakub Lipski is University Professor in the Department of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Before obtaining his PhD in English Literature, he had studied English, Cultural Studies and Art History. He is the author of Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth-Century English Robinsonade (2024), Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Studies in Reception (2021), Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (2018) and In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2014). His research interests include eighteenth-century English fiction and culture, word and image crossovers, as well as reception and adaptation studies. M-C. Newbould is Professor in the Department of Anglophone Literatures at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, after having taught and researched at the University of Cambridge for many years. Her monograph Adaptations of Laurence Sterne’s Fiction: Sterneana, 1760–1840 was published in 2013. She co-edited an essay collection on Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey with W. B. Gerard in 2021 and the Open Access dataset Laurence Sterne and Sterneana with Helen Williams in 2022. She is an editor of international Sterne journal The Shandean.

The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts is a weighty tome. But that does not prevent it from being an enjoyable, engaging and stimulating read. Supported by a well-written and crafted introduction, this well-researched companion provides an opportunity for an ongoing discussion about the value of the eighteenth-century novel and the arts in the twenty-first century.

• AcknowledgementList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsThe Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts, Jakub Lipski and M-C. NewbouldPart I: Styles and Discourses1. Invisibility and Narration in Haywood (and Behn and Fielding), Marcie Frank2. Orientalism and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, James Watt3. Crafting the Past: Antiquarianism, Decorative Handicrafts and the Novel at the Mid-Century, Katharina Boehm4. Anatomy, Invasion, and Imagination: Reading Gender, Medicine and the Body in the Mid-Century Novel, Ashleigh BlackwoodPart II: Visual Cultures5. Before & After: Imagining Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Literature, from Defoe and Hogarth to Sterne and Gainsborough, Frédéric Ogée6. The Art of Architecture and the Form of the Novel, Chris Ewers7. ‘The statue cannot be formed, unless our inclination concur thereto’: Statuary and Sculpture in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, M-C. Newbould8. Depicting Beautiful Women in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Katherine Aske9. Stories behind Pictures: Reconstructing a Pre-History of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, Jakub Lipski10. The Romances of Ann Radcliffe and the ‘Total Work of Art’, Hannah MossPart III: Modes and Spaces of Performance11. Haywood’s Whimsical Adventures: The Novel and the Rococo, Joseph Drury12. Song in the Novels of Samuel Richardson, Elizabeth Kraft13. Vexed Diversions: Gulliver’s Travels, the Arts and Popular Entertainment, Daniel Cook14. Songs, Stories and Sentimentalism: The British Broadside Ballad as Sentimental Fiction, Georgina Bartlett15. ‘Novel Romance makes me puke!’: Burneys, Shakespeares and the Sentimental Plot, Mascha Hansen16. Polite Arts/The Arts of Politeness: Manners, Hypocrisy and the Performance of the Self, Przemysław Uściński17. Musical ‘Epiphanies’ in the late Eighteenth-Century Novel, Pierre Dubois18. Jane Austen’s Art of Elocution: Discerning Feeling in Persuasion, Fraser EastonPart IV: Networks and Interactions19. Multimedia Coterie Romance, Natasha Simonova20. The Art of Reading and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: The Case of The History of Charlotte Summers, The Parish Girl, Joanna Maciulewicz21. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Sociable Arts, Emrys Jones22. Novels, Paintings and the Half-Trained Eye in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Reading Culture, Paul GoringPart V: Adaptations and Afterlives23. From Visual to Material Culture: The Afterlives of Frontispieces to Robinson Crusoe, Nathalie Collé24. Text Transformed into Silkwork: British Needlework Pictures and the Adaptation of ‘Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter’, Sandro Jung25. Extra-Illustration and the Seduction of a ‘Standard’ Text: James Comerford’s Erotic Books, Helen Williams26. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Art of Graphic Satire, from Character to Constellation, Brigitte Friant-Kessler27. Contemporary Art and the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Amelia Dale28. Invoking the Implied Viewer in the Eighteenth-Century Novel on Film, Jennifer Preston WilsonIndex