Draft Rise of the Novel Seminar Paper: The Eighteenth Century (Companionate) Marriage Market: Or, The History of an Expanding Ego’s Entrance into Female “Character” and Interiority as Displayed in Frances Burney’s…

The 18th Century Marriage Market as per Evelina’s Lord Orville and Sir Clement Willoughby

The dialogue between Lord Orville and Sir Clement Willoughby in volume 3, letter 14, Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars, of Evelina: Or the History of a Young Woman’s Entrance into…

Book Report regarding The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Shauna Lynch

Thesis of the Work
Because Lynch’s ideas and words entwine to create an enchanting jungle for the reader to…

Robinson Crusoe: English Narcissus?

“Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel, and Robinson Crusoe” by Brett McInelly suggests it will detail the relationship between the expanding notion of the “self” alongside the expanding British Empire through the cultural artifact, the novel…

Birtherism and the Scholarly Debate over Equiano

How disarming it was in reading the essay “Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself,” to learn that in the 217 years between the time Equiano (self-published) his Interesting Narrative in 1789 and the publication of Cathy N. Davidson’s essay (by the…

Satire as Antidote: Anti-Pamela and Shamela

Dear Readers,

After outlining the top five reasons for which Pamela “is by no means innocent,” the mock editor of Fielding’s Shamela writes: “What hath been said is sufficient to persuade you of the use which may arise from…

Romantic Reading in/at Northanger Abbey

While Henry Tilney instructs the heroine of Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, to read…

The Road to Riches Is Paved with Prudishness and Prose

The Legend of Pamela: Or, “Oh the sword! The sword!” in which Pamela Defeats Villains Equipped with Nothing but Physical Weakness and Verbal Strength

The Castle of Ortranto Deconstructs Romance and Realism with the Crash of a Helmet

While early novelists such as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding wielded realism to differentiate their works of fiction from the previous works of fiction published under…