Table of Contents:
  • 1. Novel romanticism in 1751 : Eliza Haywood's Besty Thoughtless / Margaret Case Croskery
  • 2. The melancholy Briton : enlightenment sources of the Gothic / Peter Walmsley
  • 3. "Disagreeable misconstructions" : epistolary trouble in Charlotte Smith's Desmond / Scott C. Campbell
  • 4. Reason and romance : rethinking romantic-era fiction through Jane West's The advantages of education / Daniel Schierenbeck
  • 5. The politics of masculinity in the 1790s radical novel : Hugh Trevor, Caleb Williams, and the romance of sentimental friendship / Shawn Lisa Maurer
  • 6. The "double sense" of honor : revising gendered social codes in Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray / Shelley King
  • 7. Reading of the metropole : Elizabeth Hamilton's Translations of the letters of a Hindoo Rajah / Tara Ghoshal Wallace
  • 8. The woman of genius : in praise of the Inchoate future / Julie Shaffer
  • 9. Frances Trollope's America : from enlightenment aesthetics to victorian class / Christopher Flynn
  • Response essay. How we see : the 1790s / Patricia M. Spacks
  • Response essay. Cultural transitions, literary judgements, and the romantic-era British novel / Stephen C. Behrendt.