Exploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a
crucial aspect of the genre's ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of …

This article positions the eighteenth‐century novel alongside contemporary developments in
the modeling of complex systems, including Leonhard Euler's solution to the Königsberg …

Laurence Sterne wrote to his friend Robert Foley in November 1764 asking,“will you present
my most grateful respts to the worthy Baron D'Holbach—I want to send him one of the best …

“The Novel as readers now understand it did not really exist as a literary form in English
during the late seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth”, John Richetti …

Tobias Smollett's works were among the most frequently illustrated in the eighteenth century.
Smollett's eclectic output encountered equally diverse types of illustration that both …

This thesis examines the writing lives of five women: Mary (1736-1800) and Charlotte (1737-
1797) Winn, Elizabeth Egerton (c. 1681-1743), Cecilia Strickland (1741-1814), and Hannah …

Abstract The Realist Stage: Theatrical Verisimilitude in the Nineteenth Century Novel
reconsiders the relationship of theatre and the novel in the nineteenth century. It engages …

This chapter identifies and discusses critical elements in the current approach to ekphrasis,
starting with a new definition of the term. Ekphrasis is seen as not merely a property of the …

As Clarissa meticulously prepares for her death following her rape, Lovelace's friend Belford
writes to him that,“The lady has been giving orders, with great presence of mind, about her …

This chapter traces the uses of pictorial parallels in the early attempts at theorizing and
historicizing eighteenth-century fiction. It opens with a discussion of the meta-pictorial …