Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword ix
3. Contents xi
4. The Beginnings of Parody and Burlesque 3
5. Richardson and Fielding: Shamela and Shamelia 9
6. The Offspring of Tristram Shandy 39
7. The Mock Romances; Or, Don Quixote in Petticoats 61
8. Antidotes to Sentimentality 80
9. Satire for the New Philosophy 115
10. Jane Austen's sense and other People's Sensibility 130
11. Gothic Nonsense 154
12. When Knighthood was in Full Bloom 182
13. Burlesques by an Eminent Hand 206
14. The decline of the Burlesque Novel 234
15. Appendix 247
16. Bibliography 281
17. Index 287