This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experim

The contemporaneous development of speculative investment and the novel in the early eighteenth century, and women's role in both.

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential re

Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilputte traces the

Recovers and analyzes novel manuscripts and post-publication revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenth-century authorship.