Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Note on the transcription of texts

Introduction: making novel readers

Part I The rise of the novel as genre

1 The novel and its critics

2 The temporality of genre

Antiquity: genre theory versus literary practice

The early modern age

Early twentieth century to (post-)structuralism

Reader-response theories

Bakhtin, Derrida, and the temporality of generic archives

Part II Paratexts: the genesis of genre

Introduction

3 Seventeenth-century writing: shifting forms

4 Paratext and drama

5 Paratext and prose

Dedicated readers

Deferred judgement

Beyond reality

Embodied morality

Paratextual limits and genre boundaries

Part III The Restoration novel

Introduction

6 Narrating, telling, and speaking

7 Types, characters, individuals

8 Truth and fiction: reality and the page

Conclusion: reading a genre into being

Endnotes

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Part II

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Part III

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Conclusion

Bibliography

primary sources

Anthologies

Serialised Publications

Anonymous Works

Early Modern Works

critical sources

Index