The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Vol. 6-7

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Rivero notes in his brief foreword that since 18th-century English language novels are a global concern, this volume containing 16 essays and six recent book reviews represents the work of scholars from Europe and Japan as well as the US and UK. The book commences with an analysis of Defoe's deconstruction of female roles in Moll Flanders. Other contributors study aspects of other such well-known works and authors as Tom Jones and Mary Shelley. Some focus on lesser- known genres/works such as British Orientalist romances and J.M.S. Tompkins' 1932 study, The Popular Novel in England, 1770-1800, in which she justifies including "tenth-rate fiction" in her critique. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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”