The Cambridge introduction to the eighteenth-century novel

Part I. Secrets and Singularity: 1. The power of singularity; 2. The virtue of singularity; 3. The punishment of singularity

Part II. Sociability and Community: 4. The reformation of family; 5. Alternative communities; 6. The sociability of books

Part III. History and Nation: 7. History, novel, and polemic; 8. Historical fiction and generational distance; Afterword: the history of the eighteenth-century novel.