Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Notes on Contributors xi
6. Pope's Essay on Man and the French Enlightenment 1
7. The Hero as Clown: Jonathan Wild, Felix Krull and Others 17
8. Richardson at Work: Revisions, Allusions, and Quotations in Clarissa 53
9. Rhetoric and Historiography: Tristram Shandy’s First Nine Kalendar Months 73
10. Henry Fielding and the English Rococo 93
11. An Early Theory of Genius: Alexander Gerard's Unpublished Aberdeen Lectures 113
12. Diderot and the Sublime: The Artist as Hero 143
13. Fuseli's Translations of Winckelmann: A Phase in the Rise of British Hellenism with an aside on William Blake 163
14. The Influence of Pierre Boyle's Defence of Toleration on the Idea of History expressed in the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique 187
15. Historical Scepticism in Scotland before David Hume 205
16. Modernisation, Mass Education and Social Mobility in French Thought, 1750–1789 223
17. Hawkesworth's Voyages 239
18. Of Silkworms and Farthingales and the Will of God 259
19. Swift and Satirical Typology in A Tale of a Tub 279
20. The Politics of Gulliver's Travels 303
21. Satire and Self-Expression in Swift's Tale of a Tub 323
22. Swift: Some Caveats 341
23. David Garrick, Poet of the Theatre: A Critical Survey 359
24. Cato in Tears: Stoical Guises of the Man of Feeling 377
25. Nichol Smith Collections in Edinburgh and Oxford 397
26. Index 411