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New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'
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2011
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New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which discuss Tobias Smollett, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Samuel Richardson, suggest new directions in biographical writing, including the intriguing discourse of 'life writing' explored by Paula Backscheider. Subsequent essays enrich understandings of eighteenth-century fiction by examining lesser-known works by Jane Barker, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Lennox. Many of the essays, especially those that focus on Smollett, use political pamphlets, material artifacts, and urban legends to place familiar novels in new contexts. The collection's final essay demonstrates the vital importance of bibliographic study.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61149-040-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-61149-041-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
374
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 01: The “Super” Jerry C. Beasley No access Pages 11 - 16
Chapter 02: Tobias Smollett: The Life of an Author No access Pages 17 - 40
Chapter 03: Elizabeth Singer Rowe: Lifestyle as Legacy No access Pages 41 - 66
Chapter 04: The Headwaters of Ooziness(Richardson the Polemicist) No access Pages 67 - 86
Chapter 05: Cleland’s Gospel of “Extasy” No access Pages 87 - 108
Chapter 06: Transcultural Adoptionin the Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Novel: Questioning National Identities in Charlotte Lennox’s Euphemia No access Pages 109 - 126
Chapter 07: Jane Barker’s Exilius: Politics, Women, Narration, and the Public No access Pages 127 - 144
Chapter 08: Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess and the Personal Politics of Collectivity No access Pages 145 - 158
Chapter 09: A Brief Note on Haywood Scholarship: or, The Fatal Enquiry into the Timely Discovery and Fruitful Enquiry into the Fatal Fondness of Contemporary Scholars for Eliza Haywood No access Pages 159 - 176
Chapter 10: Revising the Scottish Plot in Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random No access Pages 177 - 200
Chapter 11: Rescuing Narcissa: Monstrous Vision, Imagination, and Redemption in Roderick Random No access Pages 201 - 218
Chapter 12: Smollett, the Picaresque, and Two Medical Satires No access Pages 219 - 230
Chapter 13: The Publication and Revision of Smollett’s Continuation of the Complete History of England, 1760–1771 No access Pages 231 - 264
Appendix: A Descriptive Bibliography with Collation of Variant Readings for the Lifetime Editions of Smollett’s Continuation No access Pages 265 - 354
Select Bibliography of Works by Jerry C. Beasley No access Pages 355 - 358
