Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. FOREWORD V
3. CONTENTS XI
4. I. THE CLASSICS AND JOHN BULL, 16604714 1
5. II. THE LIMITS OF HISTORICAL VERACITY IN NEOCLASSICAL DRAMA 27
6. III. FICTION AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 51
7. IV. THE MOOD OF THE CHURCH AND A TALE OF A TUB 71
8. V. POPE, THE "APOLLO OF THE ARTS," AND HIS COUNTESS 101
9. VI. THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN IN THE EARLIER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 145
10. VII. HOGARTH'S NARRATIVE METHOD IN PRACTICE AND THEORY 161
11. VIII. VERBAL AND VISUAL CARICATURE IN THE AGE OF DRYDEN, SWIFT, AND POPE 173
12. IX. THE TROUGH OF THE WAVE 197
13. Index 227