PART I: 1660-1770: FROM 'NOVELS' TO WHAT IS NOT YET 'THE NOVEL'
The economics of culture 1660-1770
1. The Book Trade at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century / Peter Hinds
2. Business of Fiction: Novel Publishing, 1695-1774 / Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
3. Social Structure, Class, and Gender, 1660-1770 / Pat Rogers
4. Making Publics and Making Novels: Post-Habermasian Perspectives / Brian Cowan
Influences on the early English novel
5. The Continental Influence on the Eighteenth-Century Novel: 'The English Improve What Others Invent' / Walter L. Reed
6. Criss-crossing the Channel: The French Novel and English Translation / Gillian Dow
7. Religious Writings and the Early Novel / W.R. Owens
8. Travel Literature and the Early Novel / Cynthia Wall
9. Secret History, Politics, and the Early Novel / Rebecca Bullard
Early 'Novels' and Novelists
10. Restoration Fiction / Thomas Keymer
11. Testing the Market: Robinson Crusoe and After / David Oakleaf
12. Gulliver Effects / Clement Hawes
13. 'Labours of the Press': The Response to Pamela / Peter Sabor
14. Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel / John Dussinger
15. Henry Fielding and the Progress of Romance / Scott Black
16. Novels of the 1750s / Simon Dickie
17. Sterne's Fiction and the Mid-Century Novel: The 'Vast Empire of Biographical Freebooters' and the 'Crying Volume' / Tim Parnell
Epilogue: The English Novel at the end of the 1760s / J.A. Downie
PART II: 1770-1832: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL
Literary Production, 1770-1832
18. The Book Trade, 1770-1832 / John Feather
19. The Rise of the Illustrated English Novel to 1832 / Robert Folkenflik
Authors, readers, reviewers, and critics, 1770-1832
20. Social Structure, Class and Gender, 1770-1832 / W.A. Speck
21. 'Male' and 'Female' novels? Gendered Fictions and the Reading Public, 1770-1832 / Barbara M. Benedict
22. Reviewing the Novel / Antonia Forster
23. 'Ordering' Novels: Describing Prose Fiction, 1770-1832 / Peter Garside
Novels and Novelists, 1770-1832
24. The Rise and Decline of the Epistolary Novel, 1770-1832 / Ros Ballaster
25. Developments in Sentimental Fiction / Geoffrey Sill
26. Philosophical Fictions and 'Jacobin' Novels in the 1790s / Deidre Shauna Lynch
27. The Anti-Jacobin Novel / M.O. Grenby
28. The Gothic Novel and the Lingering Appeal of Romance / David H. Richter
29. Novel and Empire / Markman Ellis
30. The Popular Novel 1790 to 1820 / Gary Kelly
31. The Evangelical Novel / Lisa Wood
32. 'Pictures of domestic Life in Country Villages': Jane Austen and the 'Realist' Novel / Jan Fergus
33. Authorizing the Novel: Walter Scott's Historical Fiction / Ina Ferris
34. Parody and Satire in the Novel, 1770-1832 / Gary Dyer
Epilogue: 'The English Novel at the End of the 1820s / J.A. Downie.
