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Volume 6

The Eighteenth-Century Novel

Edited by
Albert J. Rivero and George Justice

Book Review Editor
Kit Kincade

ISSN 1528-3631
Set ISBN-10: 0-404-64650-6
Set ISBN-13: 978-0-404-64650-9

Modern Language Review on Volume 2: “Research into the eighteenth-century novel remains lively and engaged. The second volume . . . has been edited with great dedication by Albert Rivero. . . . [It] contains outstanding essays. . . . Some of the best essays explore historical aspects of the texts to throw new light on their fictional economies.”—Kate Williams


Click here for contents to volumes 1–4.

Available
Double Volume 6–7


August 2009
ISBN-10: 0-404-64656-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-64656-1
Cloth $194.50

Special Double Volume

Essays in Honor of John Richetti

George Justice, Introduction
Toni Bowers, “Verses on the Retirement of Johannes Richettius”

History, Theory, and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Paula R. Backscheider, “The Paradigms of Popular Culture”
John Bender, “The Novel as Modern Myth”
Robert DeMaria, Jr., “Plutarch, Johnson, and Boswell: The Classical Tradition of Biography at the End of the Eighteenth Century”
Robert Folkenflik, “Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and the Culture of Pornography”
Suvir Kaul, “On Intersections between Empire, Colony, Nation, and Province in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry”
Thomas Keymer, “Defoe’s Ears: The Dunciad, the Pillory, and Seditious Libel”
Michael McKeon,“The Dramatic Aesthetic and the Model of Scientific Method in Britain, 1600–1800”
Cynthia Wall, “The Business of Houses: The Problem of Old London Bridge”

The New Eighteenth-Century Novel
J. Paul Hunter, “Rethinking Form in Tom Jones
Adam Potkay, “Liberty and Necessity in Fielding’s Amelia
Jack Lynch, “Tristram Shandy and the Rise of the Novel; or, Unpopular Fiction after Richardson”
Laura Brown, “Shock Effect: Evelina’s Monkey and the Marriage Plot”
Susan C. Greenfield,“Monkeying Around in Evelina: Identity and Resemblance Again”
Lynn Festa, “Losing One’s Place in Mansfield Park
Juliet Shields, “Pedagogy in the Post-Colony: Documentary Didacticism and the ‘Irish Problem’”

Teaching the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Kate Levin, “‘Imagining a world of Satisfaction’: The Challenges and Pleasures of Teaching Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina

Book Reviews
Index

Available
Volume 5


December 2006
ISBN-10: 0-404-64655-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-64655-4
Cloth $112.50

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
Index

Volumes Available to Order
Volume ISBN 10 ISBN 13 Pub. Date Price
1 0-404-64651-4 07/2001 $112.50
2 0-404-64652-4 06/2002 $112.50
3 0-404-64653-0 978-0-404-64653-0 11/2003 $112.50
4 0-404-64654-9 978-0-404-64654-7 01/2005 $112.50
5 0-404-64655-7 978-0-404-64655-4 12/2006 $112.50
6–7 0-404-64656-5 978-0-404-64656-1 08/2009 $194.50
8 0-404-64658-1 978-0-404-64658-5 2010 (NYP) $112.50