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 XVIIIe 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 XVIIe 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.