\〃List of contributors
Chronology
1 Introducti
2 The novel and social/cultural history
3 Defoe as an innovator of fictional form
4 Gullivers Travels and the contracts of ficti
5 Samuel Richardson: fiction an knowledge
6 Henry Fielding
7 Sterne and irregular oratory
8 Smolletts Humpbry Clinker
9 Marginality in Frances Burneys novels
10 Women writers and the eighteenth-century novel
11 Sentimental novels
12 Enlightenment, popular culture, and Gothic ficti
Index