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The Eighteenth-Century Novel

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Volume 1 (2001), ISBN 0-404-64651-4

Jennifer Margulis, “Spies, Pirates, and White Slaves: Encounters with the Algerines in Three Early American Novels”
James How, “Clarissa’s Cyberspace: The Development of Epistolary Space in Richardson’s Clarissa
Beth Swan, “Clarissa Harlowe, Pleasant Rawlines, and Eighteenth-Century Discourses of Law”
Tiffany Potter, “‘A God-like Sublimity of Passion’: Eliza Haywood’s Libertine Consistency”
Amy M. King, “Linnaeus’s Blooms: Botany and the Novel of Courtship”
George Boulukos, “The Grateful Slave: A History of Slave Plantation Reform in the British Novel, 1750–1780”
Jonathan Laidlow, “A Compendium of Shandys: Methods of Organizing Knowledge in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
Stuart Sim, “Stern—Chaos—Complexity”
Sara Gadeken, “‘A Method of Being Perfectly Happy’: Technologies of the Self in the Eighteenth-Century Female Community”
Lori Walk, “Questing for Family in Joseph Andrews and David Simple
Corie Schweitzer, “Public Good and Private Mischief: Daniel Defoe’s Journal of Three Nations in A Journal of the Plague Year”
Nicholas Mason, “Class, Gender, and Domesticity in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda”
Marilyn L. Barth, “Exploring the Book Arts through One Fine Copy of The Castle of Otranto”
Virginia Duff, “‘I should not care to mix my breed’: Gender, Race, Class, and Genre in Mary Davys’ The Accomplished Rake, or Modern Fine Gentleman”

Book Reviews
Gareth Evans, Julia Stern, The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel
Dick Claésson, Timothy Mowl, William Beckford: Composing for Mozart
Mary McAlpin, May Seidman Trouille, Sexual Politics in the Age of Enlightenment: Women Writers Read Rousseau


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Volume 2 (2002), 0-404-64652-4

Albert J. Rivero, Foreword
Jacques Sohier, “‘Moll Flanders and the Rise of the Complete Gentlewoman-Tradeswoman’”
Earla Wilputte, “‘Room to Fable upon’: The History of Charles XII of Sweden in Eliza Haywood’s The Fortunate Foundlings
Kathleen M. Oliver, “Clarissa Harlowe and the Language of Dress”
Mika Suzuki, “Sarah Fielding and Reading”
David Paxman, “Tom Jones and the Paradox of Moral Purpose”
Kevin Berland, “The Paradise Garden and the Imaginary East: Alterity and Reflexivity in British Orientalist Romances”
Debra Leissner, “Smollett Colonizes Scotland: Displacement and Absorption in Humphry Clinker
Joseph F. Bartolomeo, “‘Tenth-Rate Fiction,’ First-Rate Criticism: The Legacy of J. M. S. Tompkins”
L. Lynnette Eckersley, “The Role of Evelina’s ‘Worthiest Object’ in Frances Burney’s Resistance to Eighteenth-Century Gender Ideology”
M. O. Grenby, “Orientalism and Propaganda: The Oriental Tale and Popular Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain”
Elizabeth Kraft, “Encyclopedic Libertinism and 1798: Charlotte Smith’s The Young Philosopher
Elizabeth Dill , “The Republican Stepmother: Revolution and Sensibility in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland”
Emily Hipchen, “Accounting for Fanny: ‘this curious inventory’ in Mansfield Park and The Loiterer
Anne Chandler, “Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories: Animal Objects and the Subject of Fiction”
Eve Tavor Bannet, “The ‘Abyss of the Present’ and Women’s Time in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
Lisa Hopkins, “‘A Medea, in more senses than the more obvious one’: Motherhood in Mary Shelley’s Lodore and Falkner

Book Reviews
Paulette Scott, Richard A. Rosengarten, Henry Fielding and the Narration of Providence
Paulette Scott, Lance Bertelsen, Henry Fielding at Work: Magistrate, Businessman, Writer
Kit Kincade, Charlotte Smith, The Young Philosopher, edited by Elizabeth Kraft
Kit Kincade, Loraine Fletcher, Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography
Julie Aipperspach Anderson, William Piper Bowman, Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Lori Walk, Brian McCrea, Impotent Fathers: Patriarchy and Demographic Crisis in the Eighteenth-Century Novel


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Volume 3 (2002), 978-0-404-64653-0

Albert J. Rivero, Foreword,
Cheryl Nixon, “The Surrogate Family Plot in the Annesley Case and Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman
Mark Blackwell, “‘It stood an object of terror and delight’: Sublime Masculinity and the Aesthetics of Disproportion in John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Jennifer Preston Wilson, “Clarissa: The Nation Misrul’d”
Kay Weeks, “Fielding Looks Down: Tom Jones and the Lower Orders”
Jodi Wyett, “Of Innocence and Experience: Fame, Fortune, and Women’s Intellectual Labor in Frances Brooke’s The Excursion
Jeanine Casler, “Rakes and Races: Art’s Imitation of Life in Frances Burney’s Evelina
Erik Bond, “Farewell, Mr. Villars: Cecilia and Frances Burney’s ‘Inward Monitor’“
Beth Swan, “Radcliffe’s Inquisition and Eighteenth-Century English Legal Practice”
Diane Hoeveler, “The Tyranny of Sentimental Form: Wollstonecraft’s Maryand the Gendering of Anxiety”
David Wheeler, “Jane Austen and the Discourse of Poverty”
Anne H. Stevens, “Sophia Lee’s Illegitimate History”
Albert J. Rivero, “Teaching the Eighteenth-Century: ‘Beginning Grandison’”

Book Reviews
Elson Bond, Julie Ellison, Cato’s Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion
Margo Collins, Hal Gladfelder, Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law
Kit Kincaide, Moira Dearnley, Distant Fields: Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Wales
Kathleen Urda, Ann Cline Kelly, Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man


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Volume 4 (2003), 978-0-404-64654-7

Albert J. Rivero, Foreword
Barbara Benedict, “Identity and Quest: Experimental Experience and the Eighteenth-Century Novel”
Charles Haskell Hinnant, “Moll Flanders, Roxana, and First-Person Female Narratives: Models and Prototypes”
Amy Wolf, “Bernard Mandeville, Henry Fielding’s Amelia, and the Necessities of Plot”
Susan Carlile, “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennox’s Age and The Life of Harriot Stuart
Emily Bowles, “Frances Brooke’s Erotic-Didactic Garden: Desire, Shame, and Sensibility in The Excursion
Natalie Neill, “‘The trash with which the press now groans’: Northanger Abbey and the Gothic Best Sellers of the 1790s”
Marc Cyr, “Bad Morality, Truth, and Mrs. Smith in Persuasion
George Justice, “Rasselas in The Rise of the Novel”

Book Reviews
Melvyn New, Thomas Keymer, Sterne, The Moderns, and the Novel
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Maximillian E. Novak, Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions: His Life and Ideas
Margaret Case Croskery, Ellen Pollak, Incest and the English Novel, 1684–1814
A. S. Coppola, Claude Rawson, God, Gulliver and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492–1945


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Volume 5 (2006), 978-0-404-64655-4

Essays in Honor of Everett Zimmerman

Susan Spencer, Introduction
Michael Austin, “‘Jesting with the Truth’: Figura, Trace, and the Boundaries of Fiction in Robinson Crusoe and Its Sequels”
Lisa Zunshine, “Caught Unawares by a Benefactor: Embodying the Deserving Object of Charity in the Eighteenth-Century Novel”
Emily Allen, “Loss Incommensurable: Economies of Imbalance in Mary Robinson’s Walsingham

Essays
Janine Barchas, “Crusoe’s Struggles with Sexuality”
Peter Marbais, “Roxana and ‘my Woman, Amy’: Failure of Mutual Recognition in Defoe’s Roxana
Marta Kvande, “Jane Barker and Delarivière Manley: Public Women Against the Public Sphere”
Stephanie Harzewski,“The Fantomina Phenomenon: Eliza Haywood and the Formation of a Heroine”
Lincoln Faller, “Tales of a Poisoning Female Parricide and a Prostitute Treated ‘in a Manner Too Shocking to Mention’: Two Criminal Cases and ‘the Clarissa Effect’”
Tony Lee, “Allegories of Mentoring: Johnson and Frances Burney’s Cecilia
Essaka Joshua, “Charlotte Smith’s Desmond: Romance and the Man of Principle in the Domestic and Public Spheres”
Scott Gordon, “Reading Quixotes and Quixotic Readers: Teaching Lennox’s Female Quixote
Book Reviews
Rebecca Shapiro, Terry Eagleton, The English Novel: An Introduction
Amy D. Stackhouse, Aphra Behn, The Lover’s Watch or The Art of Making Love
Rima Abunasser, Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
Mariah Adin, Wiep Van Bunge, et al., eds., The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers
Elson Bond, David Wood Sweet, Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730–1830
A. S. Coppola, John O’Brien, Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690–1760
Tara Czechowski, Felicity Nussbaum, The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century
Anna Mae Duane, Cathy N. Davidson, Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America
Ilse Schrynemakers, Billy G. Smith, ed., Down and Out in Early America
Kit Kincade, Alan Richardson and Debbie Lee, eds., Early Black British Writing: Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and Others
Anne H. Stevens, Paul Goring, The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Anthony W. Lee, Devoney Looser, British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670–1820
Ken Monteith, Donald Davie, A Travelling Man: Eighteenth-Century Bearings
Kathryn Strong, James M. Smith, ed., Two Irish National Tales: Maria Edgeworth’s “Castle Rackrent” and Sydney Owenson’s “The Wild Irish Girl”