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The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indispensable resource for those with an interest in the history of the novel.
List of contents
- Preface
- PART I: 1660-1770: FROM 'NOVELS' TO WHAT IS NOT YET 'THE NOVEL'
- The economics of culture 1660-1770
- 1: Peter Hinds: The Book Trade at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
- 2: Michael F. Suarez, S. J.: Business of Fiction: Novel Publishing, 1695-1774
- 3: Pat Rogers: Social Structure, Class, and Gender, 1660-1770
- 4: Brian Cowan: Making Publics and Making Novels: Post-Habermasian Perspectives
- Influences on the early English novel
- 5: Walter L. Reed: The Continental Influence on the Eighteenth-Century Novel: 'The English Improve What Others Invent'
- 6: Gillian Dow: Criss-crossing the Channel: The French Novel and English Translation
- 7: W. R. Owens: Religious Writings and the Early Novel
- 8: Cynthia Wall: Travel Literature and the Early Novel
- 9: Rebecca Bullard: Secret History, Politics, and the Early Novel
- Early 'Novels' and Novelists
- 10: Thomas Keymer: Restoration Fiction
- 11: David Oakleaf: Testing the Market: Robinson Crusoe and After
- 12: Clement Hawes: Gulliver Effects
- 13: Peter Sabor: 'Labours of the Press': The Response to Pamela
- 14: John Dussinger: Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel
- 15: Scott Black: Henry Fielding and the Progress of Romance
- 16: Simon Dickie: Novels of the 1750s
- 17: Tim Parnell: 'Tristram is the Fashion': Sterne, Shandyism, and the sentimental novel
- Epilogue: The English Novel at the end of the 1760s
- PART II: 1770-1832: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL
- Literary Production 1770-1832
- 18: John Feather: The Book Trade 1770-1832
- 19: Robert Folkenflik: The Rise of the Illustrated English Novel to 1832
- Authors, readers, reviewers, and critics, 1770-1832
- 20: W. A. Speck: Social Structure, Class and Gender, 1770-1832
- 21: Barbara M. Benedict: 'Male' and 'Female' novels? Gendered Fictions and the Reading Public, 1770-1832
- 22: Antonia Forster: Reviewing the Novel
- 23: Peter Garside: 'Ordering' Novels: Describing Prose Fiction, 1770-1832
- Novels and Novelists, 1770-1832
- 24: Ros Ballaster: The Rise and Decline of the Epistolary Novel, 1770-1832
- 25: Geoffrey Sill: Developments in Sentimental Fiction
- 26: Deirdre Shauna Lynch: Philosophical Fictions and 'Jacobin' Novels in the 1790s
- 27: M. O. Grenby: The Anti-Jacobin Novel
- 28: David H. Richter: The Gothic Novel and the Lingering Appeal of Romance
- 29: Markman Ellis: Novel and Empire
- 30: Gary Kelly: The Popular Novel 1790 to 1820
- 31: Lisa Wood: The Evangelical Novel
- 32: Jan Fergus: 'Pictures of domestic Life in Country Villages': Jane Austen and the 'Realist' Novel
- 33: Ina Ferris: Authorizing the Novel: Walter Scott's Historical Fiction
- 34: Gary Dyer: Parody and Satire in the Novel, 1770-1832
- Epilogue
About the author
J. A. Downie is Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Pro-Warden (Academic). The author of five monographs, he has also edited three collections of essays, as well as editions of Defoe's political and social writings for Pickering & Chatto's
The Complete Works of Daniel Defoe. For many years he was the editor of the section of
The Scriblerian devoted to Defoe and the Early Novelists. His most recent book is
A Political Biography of Henry Fielding.
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indispensable resource for those with an interest in the history of the novel.
