Introduction / John Richetti
The novel and social/cultural history / J. Paul Hunter
Defoe as an innovator of fictional form / Max Novak
"Gulliver's travels" and the contracts of fiction / Michael Seidel
Samuel Richardson : fiction and knowledge / Margaret Anne Doody
Henry Fielding / Claude Rawson
Sterne and irregular oratory / Jonathan Lamb
Smollett's "Humphry Clinker" / Michael Rosenblum
Marginality in Frances Burney's novels / Julia Epstein
Women writers and the eighteenth-century novel / Jane Spencer
Sentimental novels / John Mullan
Enlightenment, popular culture, and Gothic fiction / James P. Carson.