Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. ABBREVIATIONS USED 6
4. PREFACE 7
5. CHAPTER I Realism and the Novel Form 9
6. CHAPTER II The Reading Public and the Rise of the Novel 35
7. CHAPTER III 'Robinson Crusoe'', Individualism and the Novel 60
8. CHAPTER IV Defoe as Novelist:' Moll Flanders' 93
9. CHAPTER V Love and the Novel: ' Pamela ' 135
10. CHAPTER VI Private Experience and the Novel 174
11. CHAPTER VII Richardson as Novelist:' Clarissa' 208
12. CHAPTER VIII Fielding and the Epic Theory of the Novel 239
13. CHAPTER IX Fielding as Novelist: ' Tom Jones ' 260
14. CHAPTER X Realism, and the Later Tradition: a Note 290
15. AFTERWORD "A Matter Discutable": The Rise of the Novel 303
16. INDEX 323