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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.  \nPrinted and bound in the United States of America.  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nThe Eighteenth-Century English Novel / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Bloom’s period studies) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-7910-7896-5  \n1. English fiction—18th century—History and criticism. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Series. PR853 .E445 2003  \n823’.509—dc22  \n2003028170  \nContributing Editor: Janyce Marson Cover designed by Keith Trego Layout by EJB Publishing Services  \nContents  \nEditor’s Note vii  \nIntroduction 1  \nHarold Bloom  \nSentiment from Afra Behn to Marivaux 43  \nJames R. Foster  \nDeserts, Ruins and Troubled Waters: Female Dreams in Fiction  \nand the Development of the Gothic Novel 71  \nMargaret Anne Doody  \nThe Comic Sublime and Sterne’s Fiction 113  \nJonathan Lamb  \nFielding: The Comic Reality of Fiction 143  \nSheridan Baker  \nCrime and Adventure 175  \nPaula R. Backscheider  \nAn Architect’s Imagination: The Rise of Bath 201  \nSimon Varey  \nThe Job Controversy, Sterne, and the Question of Allegory 219  \nJonathan Lamb  \nFighting the Pharisees 235  \nPatrick Reilly  \nMythic and Historic Language in Smollett 263  \nJohn M. Warner  \nvi Contents  \nThe Tested Woman Plot 293  \nLois E. Bueler  \nThe Don Juan Plot 313  \nLois E. Bueler  \nCaesar’s Toils: Allusion and Rebellion in Oroonoko 329  \nDavid E. Hoegberg  \nGulliver’s Travels and the contracts of fiction 347  \nMichael Seidel  \nSerializing a Self 365  \nThomas Keymer  \nChronology 399  \nContributors 409  \nBibliography 413  \nAcknowledgments 419  \nIndex 421  \nEditor’s Note  \nMy Introduction traces the fortunes of the Protestant will in EighteenthCentury English prose fiction, from Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders to Fanny Burney’s Evelina. Along the way, I offer interpretations of Swift’s A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver’s Travels, of Richardson’s Clarissa and Fielding’s Tom Jones, and of the very varied triad of Sterne’s Tristam Shandy, Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield, and Smollett’s Humphrey Clinker.  \nJames R. Foster surveys the pre-Romantic novel of Sentiment from Aphra Behn to Marivaux, while Margaret Anne Doody meditates upon the dream-lives of women in Gothic romances.  \nSterne’s comic version of the Longinian Sublime is seen as indebted to Cervantes by Jonathan Lamb, after which Sheridan Baker analyzes the triumphant comedy of Fielding, and Paula R. Backscheider contextualizes Defoe’s Moll Flanders for us.  \nThe architecture of Bath, major social resort, is presented by Simon Varey as an induction to the fictive art of Richardson and Fielding, after which Jonathan Lamb brings together the Book of Job and Tristam Shandy, following Sterne’s own lead.  \nPatrick Reilly sees Tom Jones as Fielding’s grand assault upon hypocrisy and self-deception, while John M. Warner uncovers Smollett as one of James Joyce’s precursors.  \nClarissa, in my judgment the supreme novel in English literature, is expounded by Lois E. Bueler as two plot-lines, Clarissa as “tested woman”and Lovelace as Don Juan after which David E. Hoegberg salutes Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, which our current political correctness insists is a canonical work.  \nMichael Seidel shrewdly explores the ambiguities of truth-telling in G","cbCaic9Q461EDI26","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaic9Q461EDI26","pdf",1870817,473,"English","# Editor’s Note\n# Introduction\n## Harold Bloom\n## Sentiment from Afra Behn to Marivaux\n## Deserts, Ruins and Troubled Waters: Female Dreams in Fiction and the Development of the Gothic Novel\n## The Comic Sublime and Sterne’s Fiction\n## Fielding: The Comic Reality of Fiction\n## Crime and Adventure\n## An Architect’s Imagination: The Rise of Bath\n## The Job Controversy, Sterne, and the Question of Allegory\n## Fighting the Pharisees\n## Mythic and Historic Language in Smollett\n## The Tested Woman Plot\n## The Don Juan Plot\n## Caesar’s Toils: Allusion and Rebellion in Oroonoko\n## Gulliver’s Travels and the contracts of fiction\n## Serializing a Self\n# Chronology\n# Contributors\n# Bibliography\n# Acknowledgments\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What does Harold Bloom’s introduction focus on in 18th-century English prose fiction?\",\"answer\":\"Bloom’s introduction traces the fortunes of the Protestant will in eighteenth-century English prose fiction, moving from Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders to later authors and works. 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