pt. 1. Samuel Richardson and Georgic. Clarissa and the georgic mode
Making meaning as constructive labor
"The work of bodies" : reading, writing, and documents
pt. 2. Pastoral. The man of feeling
Colonial narratives : Charles Wentworth and The female American
pt. 3. Community and confederacy. Versions of community : William Dodd, Sarah Scott, Clara Reeve
Confederacies of women : Phebe Gibbes and John Trusler
pt. 4. The politics of reading. The discourse of manliness : Samuel Jackson Pratt and Robert Bage
The gendering of radical representation
History, romance, and the anti-Jacobins' "common sense"
Jane West and the politics of reading.