Licensing Pleasure:Literary History and the Novel in Early Modern Britain&William Warner 1
Defoe and Early Narrative&Richard Kroll 23
Sex,Lies,and Invisibility:Amatory Fiction from the Restoration to Mid-Century&Toni O'Shaughnessy Bowers 50
Richardson and His Circle&James Grantham Turner 73
Fielding and the Novel at Mid-Century&Jill Campbell 102
From Swift to Smollett:The Satirical Tradition in Prose Narrative&G.S.Rousseau 127
Sterne:Comedian and Experimental Novelist&John Allen Stevenson 154
Sentimental Novels of the Later Eighteenth Century&G.A.Starr 181
Frances Burney and the Rise of the Woman Novelist&Kristina Straub 199
The Gothic Novel,1764-1824&George E. Haggerty 220
Novels of the 1790s:Action and Impasse&Patricia Meyer Spacks 247
Jane Austen&James Thompson 275
Walter Scott:Narrative,History,Synthesis&Judith Wilt 300
A Novel of Their Own:Romantic Women's Fiction,1790-1830&Anne K.Mellor 327
"Speak what we think":The Brontёs and Women Writers&Barry V. Qualls 352
Dickens&John Kucich 381
Thackeray and the Ideology of the Gentleman&Ina Ferris 407
George Eliot and the Novel of Ideas&Gillian Beer 429
Trollope&N.John Hall 456
Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel&Ronald R.Thomas 479
Disraeli,Gaskell,and the Condition of England&Mary Poovey 508
Shaping Hardy's Art:Vision,Class,and Sex&George Levine 533
The Nineteenth-Century Novel and Empire&Patrick Brantlinger 560
Lewis Carroll and the Child in Victorian Fiction&Robert M.Polhemus 579
The Avoidance of Naturalism:Gissing,Moore,Grand,Bennett,and Others&David Trotter 608
Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie:Imperialism to Postcolonialism&Michael Gorra 631
Bennett,Wells,and the Persistence of Realism&Robert Squillace 658
Joseph Conrad&Daniel R. Schwarz 685
D.H.Lawrence&Vincent P.Pecora 715
Isherwood,Huxley,and the Thirties&Michael Rosenthal 740
James Joyce&Michael Seidel 765
Virginia Woolf&Vicki Mahaffey 789
Forster,Ford,and the New Novel of Manners&David Galef 819
Samuel Beckett's Postmodern Fictions&Brian Finney 842
Satire between the Wars:Evelyn Waugh and Others&George McCartney 867
The Reaction against Modernism:Amis,Snow,Wilson&Rubin Rabinovitz 895
Sleeping with the Enemy:Doris Lessing in the Century of Destruction&Lynne Hanley 918
Drabble to Carter:Fiction by Women,1962-1992&Carol McGuirk 939
The Contemporary Novel&Michael Wood 966
Biographies of British Novelists 989
Notes on Contributors 1017
Index 1023