Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. PART 1. Demythologizing Dido: Epic and Romance
7. 1. “Pulcherrima Dido”: Jane Barker and the Epic of Exile 25
8. 2. “What Is There of a Woman Worth Relating?” Revising the Aeneid in Henry Fielding’s Amelia 54
9. PART 2. Mythologizing Cleopatra: Romance Historiography and the Queens of Egypt
10. 3. “A Pattern to Ensuing Ages”: Reinventing Historical Practice in Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote 89
11. 4. Performing Augustan History in Sarah Fielding’s Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia 125
12. 5. Whose “Wild and Extravagant Stories”? Clara Reeve’s The Progress of Romance and The History of Charoba, Queen of Ægypt 166
13. Epilogue 199
14. Notes 209
15. Bibliography 249
16. Index 269