A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture [Paperback]

• An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel
  
• Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context
  
• Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century
  
• Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy
  
• Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science
  
• Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature
  

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction 1
Catherine Ingrassia

Shared Bibliography 18

PART ONE Formative Influences 23

1. I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it : Crusoe's Farther Adventures and the Unwritten History of the Novel 25
Robert Markley

2. Fiction/Translation/Transnation: The Secret History of the Eighteenth-Century Novel 48
Srinivas Aravamudan

3. Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain 75
Ros Ballaster

4. Age of Peregrination: Travel Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Novel 97