This study of 18th-century fiction discusses issues of definitions and approaches, genre and gender, and canon formation. It discusses works by Richardson and F... » 

This study of 18th-century fiction discusses issues of definitions and approaches, genre and gender, and canon formation. It discusses works by Richardson and Fielding, and five paired readings by Behn and Defoe, Sterne and Smollett, Lennox and Burney, Radcliffe and Godwin and Austen. «