Abbreviations 6
Preface 7
1．Realism and the Novel Form 9
2．The Reading Public and the Rise of the Novel 38
3．Robinson Crusoe，Individualism，and the Novel 66
4．Defoe as Novelist：Moll Flanders 104
5．Love and the Novel：Pamela 152
6．Private Experience and the Novel 197
7．Richardson as Novelist：Clarissa 236
8．Fielding and the Epic Theory of the Novel 272
9．Fielding as Novelist：Tom Jones 296
10．Realism and the Late Tradition：a Note 330
Index 345