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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.
Contents
1 Introduction 2 The "Super" Jerry C. Beasley 3 Tobias Smollet: The Life of an Author 4 Elizabeth Singer Rowe: Lifestyle as Legacy 5 The Headwaters of Ooziness (Richardson the Polemicist) 6 Cleland's Gospel of "Extasy" 7 Transcultural Adoption in the Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Novel: Questioning National Identities in Charlotte Lennox's Euphemia 8 Jane Baker's Exilius: Politics, Women, Narration, and the Public 9 Eliza Haywood's Love in ExcessI and the Personal Politics of Collectivity 10 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 11 Revising the Scottish Plot in Tobias Smollet's Roderick Random 12 Rescuing Narcissa: Montrous Vision, Immagination, and Redemption in Roderick Random 13 Smollett, the Picaresquem and Two Medical Satires 14 The Publication and Revision of Smollet's Continuation of the Complete History of Englans, 1760-61 15 Appendix: A Descriptive Bibliography with Collation of Varient Readings for the Life-Time Editions of Smollet's Continuation 16 Select Bibliography of Works by Jerry C. Beasley 17 Contributors 18 Index