Eighteenth Century Fiction, vol. 17, nº 3, April 2005

Eighteenth Century Fiction publishes articles in both English and French on all aspects of imaginative prose in the period 1700–1800, but will also examine papers on late 17th-century or early 19th-century fiction, particularly when the works are discussed in connection with the eighteenth century.

Published quarterly by McMaster University.

Volume 17, Number 3, April 2005

 

CONTENTS:

 

Articles:

 

Jan Herman

L'orphelin de la famille : Le Paradigme de l'enfant/manuscrit trouvé dans le roman français du XVIII^e siècle.

 

Jacqueline Chammas

 

Confusions familiales et déroutes incestueuses dans quelques romans du milieu du siècle : Caylus, Chevrier, Pernetti.

 

Hilary Teynor

A partridge in the Family Tree : Fixity, Mobility and Community in Tom Jones.

 

Ann Van Sant

Historicizing Domestic Relations: Sarah Scott's Use of the “Household Family”.  

 

Karen Lipsedge

Representations of the Domestic Parlour in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, 1747-48.  

 

Jeremy W. Webster

Sentimentalizing Patriarchy: Patriarchal Anxiety and Filial Obligation in Sir Charles Grandison.

 

Abby Coykendall

Gothic Genealogies, the Family Romance, and Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron

 

Stephen C. Behrendt

Women without Men: Barbara Hofland and the Economics of Widowhood.  

 

Shelly Charles

 

Roman d'amour et roman domestique : mutations du genre au tournant du XVII^e siècle.

 

Malcolm Cook

Writing for Charity : Mme de Genlis and Thérésina.

 

 

Reviews/Comptes rendus :

 

 

 

Alison Conway

 

Ellen Pollak, Incest and the English Nove, 1684-1814l  

 

Ann Van Sant

Naomi Tadmor, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage.  

 

Deborah A. Symonds

Writing British Infanticide: Child-Murder, Gender, and Print, 1722-1859, ed. Jennifer Thorn.