Miami University
Dept. of English
English 630A;
Laura Mandell
Spring, 1996

The
18th-C
British
Novel

This picture of a woman writing is actually a painting of Hannah More which, as you may recognize, is reproduced here courtesy of Project Electra, a project dedicated to making women's writings (1780-1830) available on line.

    Welcome to our class called

Rethinking Literary History: The Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Novel.

Graduate students at Miami University put together Web pages accessible here through this menu. You may also see our Syllabus by clicking here.

Click on any of the following titles to see students' Web Pages containing annotated bibliographies:

• Brenda Ijams, Conducting "Virtuous" Women in Pamela, Evelina, and Belinda
  
• Susanne McCracken, Pamela: Economy, The Novel, & Women
  
• Bryan Voell, Robinson Crusoe's Pure Captialism: Economics and Conversion in Defoe's Novel
  
• Dave Edmundson, The Economics of Robinson Crusoe
  
• Jill Swiencicki, The Public/Private Split, Frances Burney's Evelina, and the Novel
  
• Mike Mitchell, Subjectivity, Sexuality, and Gender in the 18th Century Novel: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Samuel Richardson's Pamela

*Note: while viewing these web pages, click on Comments to see responses to some of the ideas presented in these pages. If you have comments that you would like to add, click on Send Comments here or on the Comments page. You may also email Web-page creators directly from their pages.

View a sampling of the Handouts distributed (which can also be accessed through the syllabus):

• Notes on Marx's Capital and Robinson Crusoe
• Class and the Eighteenth Century
• British Liberalism
• The Rise of the Novel
• Jürgen Habermas on Publicity
• Consumption and the World of Goods
• Joyce Appelby on Consumerism
• John Locke on Property
• Reserve List

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