XIII. Richardson and the moralizing novel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. Introduction 1
4. PART ONE REFORMATION AND RENAISSANCE
5. Abbreviations 6
6. I. Scholars, courtiers, and churchmen 7
7. II. The English comedians 17
8. PART TWO RATIONALISM, SENTIMENTALISM, AND GENIUS
9. III. The eighteenth century 35
10. IV. The moralizing weeklies 51
11. V. Pope and philosophic poetry 61
12. VI. Thomson and descriptive poetry 73
13. VII. Locke and Shaftesbury 85
14. VIII. Milton's Paradise Lost 103
15. IX. Young's Night Thoughts 113
16. X. Macpherson's Ossian 122
17. XI. Percy's Reliques and the German folk song 136
18. XII. The moralizing drama 146
19. XIII. Richardson and the moralizing novel 164
20. XIV. Fielding and the realistic novel 180
21. XV. Sterne and the sentimental novel 193
22. XVI. Goldsmith and benevolent irony 207
23. PART THREE SHAKESPEARE I N GERMANY
24. XVII. Lessing and the rationalistic critics 217
25. XVIII. Herder and the theories of genius 241
26. XIX. Shakespeare and the German classic dramatists 254
27. XX. Shakespeare since 1800 270
28. PART FOUR THE ERA OF WORLD LITERATURE
29. XXI. English literature in the German romantic period 299
30. XXII. Byron and "Weltschmerz" 316
31. XXIII. Scott and the historical novel 329
32. XXIV. The Victorian novel 345
33. XXV. The American frontier novel 361
34. XXVI. New concepts of democracy 371
35. Bibliography 387
36. Index of investigators 519
37. Index of authors 532