Jacques SohierEarla WilputteKathleen M. OliverMika SuzukiDavid PaxmanKevin BerlandDebra LeissnerJoseph F. BartolomeoL. Lynnette EckersleyM. O. GrenbyElizabeth KraftElizabeth DillEmily HipchenAnne ChandlerEve Tavor BannetLisa HopkinsPaulette ScottPaulette ScottKit KincaideKit KincaideJulie Aipperspach AndersonLori Walk

ForewordAlbert J. Rivero
1. Moll Flanders and the Rise of the Complete Gentlewoman-Tradeswoman	p. 1
2. "Room to Fable upon": The History of Charles XII of Sweden in Eliza Haywood's The Fortunate Foundlings	p. 23
3. Clarissa Harlowe and the Language of Dress	p. 45
4. Sarah Fielding and Reading	p. 91
5. Tom Jones and the Paradox of Moral Purpose	p. 113
6. The Paradise Garden and the Imaginary East: Alterity and Reflexivity in British Orientalist Romances	p. 137
7. Smollett Colonizes Scotland: Displacement and Absorption in Humphry Clinker	p. 161
8. "Tenth-Rate Fiction," First-Rate Criticism: The Legacy of J. M. S. Tompkins	p. 179
9. The Role of Evelina's "Worthiest Object" in Frances Burney's Resistance to Eighteenth-Century Gender Ideology	p. 193
10. Orientalism and Propaganda: The Oriental Tale and Popular Politics in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain	p. 215
11. Encyclopedic Libertinism and 1798: Charlotte Smith's The Young Philosopher	p. 239
12. The Republican Stepmother: Revolution and Sensibility in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland	p. 273
13. Accounting for Fanny: "this curious inventory" in Mansfield Park and The Loiterer	p. 305
14. Wollstonecraft's Original Stories: Animal Objects and the Subject of Fiction	p. 325
15. The "Abyss of the Present" and Women's Time in Mary Shelley's The Last Man	p. 353
16. "A Medea, in more senses than the more obvious one": Motherhood in Mary Shelley's Lodore and Falkner	p. 383
Book Reviews
1. Richard A. Rosengarten, Henry Fielding and the Narration of Providence	p. 407
2. Lance Bertelsen, Henry Fielding at Work: Magistrate, Businessman, Writer	p. 409
3. Charlotte Smith, The Young Philosopher, edited by Elizabeth Kraft	p. 412
4. Loraine Fletcher, Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography	p. 413
5. William Piper Bowman, Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-Century English Literature	p. 415
6. Brian McCrea, Impotent Fathers: Patriarcy and Demographic Crisis in the Eighteenth-Century Novel	p. 419
Index	p. 425