Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture

Paula R. Backscheider is Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar at Auburn University. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she is best known as the author of Daniel Defoe: His Life (1989) and Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry (2005), for which she was co-winner of the Modern Language Association Lowell Prize. Catherine Ingrassia is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England (1998) and the editor of Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela (2004).

"A team of two dozen prominent scholars ... .Here report on the state of the art in 18th century novel studies. Nearly all the work is cutting edge, and almost every page challenges conventional wisdom ... .Specialists in the early novel will find this wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated work provocative. Highly recommended." CHOICE“Editors Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia have assembled an impressive collection of authors … .Visiting or revisiting a complex cultural topography." ECF"The Variety of texts treated in this volume is rich, unapologetic, and one of its real pleasures." The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies

• List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors xIntroduction 1Catherine IngrassiaShared Bibliography 18PART ONE Formative Influences 231. "I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it": Crusoe's Farther Adventures and the Unwritten History of the Novel 25Robert Markley2. Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 48Srinivas Aravamudan3. Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain 75Ros Ballaster4. Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 97Elizabeth Bohls5. Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Fiction 117Robert A. Erickson6. Representing Resistance: British Seduction Stories, 1660–1800 140Toni BowersPART TWO The World of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 1657. Why Fanny Can’t Read: Joseph Andrews and the (Ir)relevance of Literacy 167Paula McDowell8. Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott 191Charlotte Sussman9. The Erotics of the Novel 214James Grantham Turner10. The Original American Novel, or, The American Origin of the Novel 235Elizabeth Maddock Dillon11. New Contexts for Early Novels by Women: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians, 1719–1725 261Kathryn R. King12. Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews 276Laura Runge13. Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 299Devoney Looser14. Joy and Happiness 321Adam PotkayPART THREE The Novel's Modern Legacy 34115. The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty 343Christopher Flint16. An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value 365John Richetti17. Queer Gothic 383George E. Haggerty18. Conversable Fictions 399Kathryn Sutherland19. Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character Sketch in the Novel 419Roxann Wheeler20. Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 441Ruth Perry21. Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots? 459Carol Houlihan Flynn22. The Novel Body Politic 481Susan S. Lanser23. Literary Culture as Immediate Reality 504Paula R. BackscheiderIndex 539