An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Preface.- PART ONE: RAISING THE NOVEL.- Critics and Theorists.- Sounding the Canon.- Genre and Gender.- Two Literary Parabolas (i): Richardson from Familiar Letters to Grandison.- Two Literary Parabolas (ii): Fielding from Jonathan Wild to Amelia.- PART TWO: FICTIONAL PERSPECTIVES FROM BEHN TO AUSTEN.- Behn's Oroonoko and Defoe's Moll Flanders.- Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Smollett's Humphry Clinker.- Lennox's The Female Quixote and Burney's Evelina.- Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Godwin's Caleb Williams.- Austen's Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.- Notes.- Appendix A: Mrs Barbauld's The British Novelists.- Appendix B: The Dictionary of Literary Biography.- Appendix C: The Chadwyck Healey Database.- Bibliography.- Index.