1 Introduction JOHN RICHETTI 1
CONTENTS 9
List of contributors 9
2 The novel and social/cultural history J．PAUL HUNTER 9
Chronology 11
3 Defoe as an innovator of fictional form MAX NOVAK 41
4 Gulliver's Travels and the contracts of fiction MICHAEL SEIDEL 72
5 Samuel Richardson：fiction and knowledge MARGARET ANNE DOODY 90
6 Henry Fielding CLAUDE RAWSON 120
7 Sterne and irregular oratory JONATHAN LAMB 153
8 Smollett's Humpbry Clinker MICHAEL ROSENBLUM 175
9 Marginality in Frances Burney's novels JULIA EPSTEIN 198
10 Women writers and the eighteenth-century novel JANE SPENCER 212
11 Sentimental novels JOHN MULLAN 236
12 Enlightenment，popular culture，and Gothic fiction JAMES P．CARSON 255
Index 277