The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Daniel Cook is Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee. He is the author of Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830 (2013) and the editor of The Lives of Jonathan Swift (2011) and the co-editor (with Amy Culley) of Women's Life Writing: Gender, Genre, and Authorship, 1700-1850 (2012). Daniel has published essays on a range of topics ranging from Pope to Wordsworth in such journals as The Library, Philological Quarterly, and The Review of English Studies. Nicholas Seager is Lecturer in English at Keele University. He has published essays on authors ranging from John Bunyan to Oliver Goldsmith, and in journals including the Modern Language Review, The Library, Philological Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and The Eighteenth-Century Novel. He is the author of The Rise of the Novel: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (2012) and a forthcoming monograph, Daniel Defoe and the History of Fictional Form.

• Introduction; 1. On authorship, appropriation, and eighteenth-century fiction Daniel Cook; 2. The afterlife of family romance Michael McKeon; 3. From Pícaro to Pirate: afterlives of the Picaresque in early eighteenth-century fiction Leah Orr; 4. Ghosts of the guardian in Sir Charles Grandison and Bleak House Sarah Raff; 5. The novel's afterlife in the newspaper, 1712–50 Nicholas Seager; 6. Wit and humour for the heart of sensibility: the beauties of Fielding and Sterne M.-C. Newbould; 7. The spectral iamb: the poetic afterlife of the late eighteenth-century novel Dahlia Porter; 8. Rethinking fictionality in the eighteenth-century puppet theatre David A. Brewer; 9. The novel in musical theatre: Pamela, Caleb Williams, Frankenstein and Ivanhoe Michael Burden; 10. Gillray's Gulliver and the 1803 invasion scare David Francis Taylor; 11. Defoe's cultural afterlife, mainly on screen Robert Mayer; 12. Happiness in Austen's Sense and Sensibility and its afterlife in film Jill Heydt-Stevenson; 13. Refashioning The History of England: Jane Austen and 1066 and All That Peter Sabor; Select bibliography.

'The essays, which are substantially footnoted and usefully cross-referenced, are of a consistently high standard. Cook, Seager and their contributors are to be commended for helping to shape the field as well as extending it through this significant new body of research.' Shaun Regan, The Review of English Studies