Product Description: CONTENTS: Foreword. Marie E. McAllister, "Pox Imagery in Clarissa"; Sarah Eron, "Genius, Muse: Inspiration and Invocation in Fielding's Tom Jones; Hilary Havens, "Patronage in the Novels and Letters of Charlotte Lennox"; Patricia Hamilton, "'The Only Excellence of Falsehood': Rethinking Samuel Johnson's Role in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote"; Bonnie Latimer, "Courting Dominion: Sir Charles Grandison, Sir George Ellison, and the Organizing Principle of Masculinity"; Mercy Cannon, "Productive Lives and Disabled Bodies in Millenium Hall"; Kathryn Ready, "The Lapdog of Luxury and Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; Hannah J...read more

Product Description: Defoe's prefatory comments to "An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions" (1727) indicate a split between ignorant belief and profane disbelief in spirits in the long eighteenth century, but also establish for the reader the author's intention of reconciling the religious with the supernatural through an argument based in 'solid Foundation'...read more