Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues

Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University. He has published widely on critical theory, and is a Fellow of the English Association. Amongst his recent publications are The Lyotard Dictionary (2011), Addicted to Profit: Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free Market (2012), Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers (2013), and, with Brett Wilson and Barbara Hawkins (eds) Art, Science & Cultural Understanding (2014).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Oroonoko, or, The History of the Royal Slave and Race Relations2 The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Born Again Theology and Intelligent Design3 Gulliver’s Travels, Multiculturalism and Cultural Difference4 Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded and Sexual Abstinence5 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling and Anti-Social Behaviour6 The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella and Northanger Abbey: The Power of the Media and Popular Culture7 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and Genetic Inheritance8 The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance and Family Values9 Caleb Williams, or, Things As They Are and the Surveillance Society10 Waverley, or, ‘Tis Sixty Years Since and Disputed Sovereignty 11 Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus and Artificial Life12 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Fundamentalist TerrorismConclusionBibliographyIndex