Illustrations of Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith, in a series of forty-one plates

This chapter explores the current image of mid-eighteenth-century fiction, considering the work of Tobias Smollett. No author sits less comfortably with, especially the emphasis on...

This chapter examines a decisive period in English literary history during the 1740s. This decade saw Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding falling into an unplanned but extraordina...

Best remembered as the author ofJoseph Andrews(1742),Tom Jones(1749) andAmelia(1751), Henry Fielding was one of the most important pioneering English novelists of the eighteenth ce...

This chapter discusses several developments pertaining to the phenomenon of ‘moral romance’ as well as the state of the novel at mid-century. The 1740s were a pivotal decade for th...

This chapter further examines the creative and critical dialogue between Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding. From the publication of the two original volumes of Pamela: or, Virtu...

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), the English writer and printer best known for his epistolary novels, including Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1748), had preserved copies of his extensi...

This chapter examines the Indian illustrations of Frederic Remington, widely acclaimed today as the most famous Western illustrator and painter. Remington, who was too young to cov...

The Stuart writer and gardener John Evelyn (1620–1706), whose two-volume Sylva is also reissued in this series, kept a diary from the age of eleven, and in the 1680s began to compi...