Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture

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Edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published April 2005, 576 pages, cloth

ISBN 1405101571

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century English Novel and Culture provides an up-to-date resource for the study of this subject, foregrounding those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century. It considers not only the canonical literature of the period, but also the non-canonical literature, and the contexts in which the eighteenth-century novel was produced.The volume is divided into three parts exploring formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy. Each of these three parts is structured around the same themes, including globalization, nationhood, technology, commerce, science, and lifestyles. This allows the Companion to capitalize on cutting-edge scholarship without obscuring traditional parameters for the study of the eighteenth-century novel, such as narrative authority, print culture, and the rise of the novel as a pan-European phenomenon.The Companion as a whole furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts, and keeps them abreast of current critical trends in a field that has changed dramatically over the past decade.

Series:Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Catherine Ingrassia (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Shared Bibliography
PART I: Formative Influences
1 ‘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: Robert Markley (University of Illinois)
2 Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Srinivas Aravamudan (Duke University)
3 Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford University)
4 Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Elizabeth A. Bohls (University of Oregon)
5 Milton and the Poetics of Ecstasy in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Robert A. Erickson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
6 Seduction Stories and Subaltern Resistance: Gender, Party, Nation: Toni Bowers (University of Pennsylvania)
PART II: World of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
7 Why Fanny Can't Read: Joseph Andrews and the (Ir)relevance of Literacy: Paula McDowell (Rutgers University)
8 Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith, and Scott: Charlotte Sussman (University of Colorado)
9 The Erotics of the Novel: James Grantham Turner (University of California, Berkeley)
10 The Original American Novel: or, The American Origin of the Novel: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Yale University)
11 The Early Novel and its Readers: The Case of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and the Hillarians: Kathryn R. King (University of Montevallo)
12 Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews: Laura L Runge (University of South Florida)
13 Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Devoney Looser (University of Missouri-Columbia)
14 Joy and Happiness: Adam Potkay (College of William & Mary)
PART III: The Novel's Modern Legacy
15 The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty: Christopher Flint (Case Western Reserve University)
16 An Emerging New Canon of the British Eighteenth-Century Novel: Feminist Criticism, the Means of Cultural Production, and the Question of Value: John Richetti (University of Pennsylvania)
17 Queer Gothic: George E. Haggerty (University of California, Riverside)
18 Conversable Fictions: Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford University)
19 Racial Legacies: The Speaking Countenance and the Character Sketch in the Novel: Roxann Wheeler (Ohio State University)
20 Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Ruth Perry (MIT)
21 Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots? : Problems in Revolutionary Representation: Carol Houlihan Flynn (Tufts University)
22 The Novel Body Politic: Susan S. Lanser (Brandeis University)
23 Literary Culture as Immediate Reality: Paula R. Backscheider (Auburn University)
Index