...Lisa Zunshine Duke University Press 2005 The Spectral Hospital: Eighteenth-Century Philanthropy and the Novel Lisa Zunshine University of Kentucky Established in 1739 as a shelter...

...Katherine Binhammer The College of William & Mary 2003 The Persistence of Reading: Governing Female Novel-Reading in Memoirs of Emma Courtney and Memoirs of Modern Philosophers Katherine...

...Clorinda Donato This study charts the resonance of John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , known more commonly as Fanny Hill , in the Italian peninsula in the long eighteenth century. It discusses and compares four different editions of Italian translations of the novel as well as its...

...David H. Richter Orr Leah . Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690–1730 ( Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia , 2017 ). Pp. viii + 336 . $45 Keymer Thomas , ed. Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750 . Volume 1 of the Oxford...

...Matthew J. Rigilano Maioli Roger . Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel: Fielding to Austen ( Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 ). Pp. xxi + 202 . €93.59 Thompson Helen . Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel ( Philadelphia : Univ...

...Jason H. Pearl Review Essay Reorienting the Rise of the Novel Jason H. Pearl Florida International University Srinivas Aravamudan. Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (Chicago: Univ...

... Embodying Enlightenment Ethics: Thinking Happiness through the Novel Vivasvan Soni Northwestern University Brian Michael Norton. Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness: Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment (Lewisburg: Bucknell...

...Scott Black Duke University Press 2010 Review Essay Is the Novel Modern? Scott Black University of Utah Jenny Mander, ed. Remapping the Rise of the European Novel (Oxford: Voltaire...

...Donelle Ruwe Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (1814) is a historical novel by the Irish author Adelaide O’Keeffe that features religious conversions from paganism to Judaism, and from Judaism to Christianity. O’Keeffe stages these conversions within the context of late Enlightenment debates about...

...Robert Miles Wallace Miriam L. , ed. Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment: British Novels from 1750 to 1832 ( Burlington : Ashgate , 2009 ). Pp. x + 229 . $99.95 Wallace Miriam L. . Revolutionary Subjects in the English “Jacobin” Novel, 1790 – 1805...

...Carol Stewart Signs of Eliza Haywood’s Jacobite sympathies are scattered throughout her work, becoming pronounced in The Fortunate Foundlings (1744), a novel written on the eve of the ’45 Rebellion. There is a positive representation of the Stuart court in exile, an emphasis on loyalty, and unusual...

...Wendy Jones Macpherson Sandra . Harm’s Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. xii + 256. $55 Vermeule Blakey . Why Do We Care About Literary Characters? ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2010 ). Pp. xvi...

...Nancy A. Mace Power Henry . Epic into Novel: Henry Fielding, Scriblerian Satire, and the Consumption of Classical Literature ( Oxford : Oxford Univ. , 2015 ). Pp. xiv + 232 . 3 ills. $95 Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Review Essay...

...Scott Black Pavel Thomas G. . The Lives of the Novel: A History . ( Princeton : Princeton Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xii + 346 . $35 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Review Essay The Novel’s High Road...

...Julian Fung For most modern readers, Tobias Smollett’s novels are defined by violence and crude physical humor, both of which contribute to angry satire on society’s vices. By drawing attention to eighteenth-century illustrations in Smollett’s novels, I want to suggest that illustrators were...

...Marilyn Roberts During the long eighteenth century, benevolence was thought to be the greatest of all virtues. In her later novels especially, Jane Austen emphasized its primacy, showing that benevolence must be taught, practiced, and perfected through rigorous self-analysis and the repudiation...

...Peter Sabor This essay envisages what a new scholarly edition of John Cleland’s notorious novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748 – 49), might provide. Drawing on digital resources such as ECCO, it could readily refer to the full range of Cleland’s numerous publications, and taking advantage...

...Peter M. Briggs Dunton's journalistic Athenian Mercury and his proto-novel A Voyage Round the World , both from 1691, imply through their strategies of presentation significantly different ideas of authorship. Experimenting with a participatory format that paired readers' questions on a variety...

...Neil Ramsey Although Frankenstein has long been read in relation to revolutionary politics, there has been little specific discussion of the themes of suffering and the trauma of war in the novel, concerns that were central to much of Mary Shelley’s writing. Taking inspiration from Ahmed Saadawi’s...