Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Richter, David H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The World That Made the Novel

The Novel before the Novel The Rise of the Novel The Origins of the English Novel 1600–1740 Causality and the Rise of the Novel Historical Presentism and the History of the Rise of the Novel A Rhetorical Theory of Narrative

Chapter 2: Oroonoko (1688)

Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History Oroonoko: The Initiation Aphra Behn Truth-Telling Fiction: Romance, Novel, History The Role of the Narrator The Digressions Slavery in Oroonoko History, News and the Royal Slave

Chapter 3: Moll Flanders (1722)

Daniel Defoe The World of Moll Flanders The Initiation Story and Discourse Psychological Realism Irony in Moll Flanders Naive Incoherent Autobiography

Chapter 4: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740)

The Author of Pamela The Creation of Pamela Reading Pamela Misreading/Rewriting Pamela The Masterpiece

Chapter 5: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749)

The Author of Tom Jones Reading Joseph Andrews Reading Tom Jones The Plot of Tom Jones The Delayed Launch The Digressions Fortune vs. Providence

Chapter 6: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. (1759–1767)

Structure Texture: The Local Effects The Hobbyhorse Satires on Learning The Bawdy Asterisk The Sentimental Moment Irony against the Reader

Chapter 7: Evelina: The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World (1778)

The Plot of Evelina Evelina and Gender Burney After Evelina

Chapter 8: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

“Mother Radcliffe” The Development of the Gothic Romance as a Genre Plotting Udolpho The Gothic Atmosphere The Content and the Form: Politics and the Gothic Novel Reading the Dream

Chapter 9: Things As They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794)

The Author of Caleb Williams Political Justice Mary and Shelley The Genre of Caleb Williams The Back Story and the Back Stories of that Back Story Sexuality and Surveillance: The Psychology of the Stalker Imprisonment and Surveillance The Two Denouements “A Half-Told and Mangled Tale”

Chapter 10: Waverley, or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since (1814)

The Author of Waverley Waverley and History Reading Waverley: The Long, Slow Launch and the “Mediocre,” Passive Hero Texture: Voice in Waverley

Chapter 11: Emma (1815)

The Author of Emma The Structure of Emma Texture: Watching Emma Get Everything Wrong Structure: Emma as a Detective Novel: Mystery and Irony The Coincidental Denouement Texture: Free Indirect Discourse The Content of Emma: Class and Caste Emma and the Condition of England

Chapter 12: The World the Novel Made

A Different World The Novel and the Development of a Mass Reading Public The Novel and the Modern Epistemé The Novel and Evolving Forms of Masculinity The Novel and Empathy A Conclusion, Which Should Have Been a Preface

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