Eighteenth-Century Novel

Rivero (Marquette U., Milwaukee, WI) notes in his brief foreword that since 18th-century English language novels are a global concern, this volume containing 16 essays and six recent book reviews represents the work of scholars from Europe and Japan as well as the US and UK. The book commences with an analysis of Defoe's deconstruction of female roles in Moll Flanders. Other contributors study aspects of other such well-known works and authors as Tom Jones and Mary Shelley. Some focus on lesser- known genres/works such as British Orientalist romances and J.M.S. Tompkins' 1932 study, The Popular Novel in England, 1770-1800, in which she justifies including "tenth-rate fiction" in her critique. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR