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...

Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper is the first critical book devoted to Kenneth Goldsmith, the acclaimed conceptual poet, pedagogue, and provocateur. The book’s focus is on...

This chapter looks at the novel in the 1750s. The genre had started the decade with its reputation riding high on the remarkable success of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1748–9), T...

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...

Richard Bushman’s “The Gold Plates as Foundational Text” focuses on the making of the Book of Mormon. In contrast to the controversies over the recovery and translation of the gold...

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...