Table of Contents:
- Licensing pleasure : literary history and the novel in early modern Britain / William Warner
- Defoe and early narrative / Richard Kroll
- Sex, lies, and invisibility : amatory fiction from the Restoration to mid- century / Toni O'Shaughnessy Bowers
- Richardson and his circle / James Grantham Turner
- Fielding and the novel at mid-century / Jill Campbell
- From Swift to Smollett : the satirical tradition in prose narrative / G.S. Rousseau
- Sterne : comedian and experimental novelist / John Allen Stevenson
- Sentimental novels of the later eighteenth century / G.A. Starr
- Frances Burney and the rise of the woman novelist / Kristina Straub
- The Gothic novel, 1764-1824 / George E. Haggerty
- Novels of the 1790s : action and impasse / Patricia Meyer Spacks
- Jane Austen / James Thompson
- Walter Scott: narrative, history, synthesis / Judith Wilt
- A novel of their own : romantic women's fiction, 1790-1830 / Anne K. Mellor
- "Speak what we think" : the Brontës and women writers / Barry V. Qualls
- Dickens / John Kucich
- Thackeray and the ideology of the gentleman / Ina Ferris
- George Eliot and the novel of ideas / Gillian Beer
- Trollope / N. John Hall
- Wilkie Collins and the sensation novel / Ronald R. Thomas
- Disraeli, Gaskell, and the condition of England / Mary Poovey
- Shaping Hardy's art : vision, class and sex / George Levine
- The nineteenth-century novel and empire / Patrick Brantlinger
- Lewis Carroll and the child in Victorian fiction / Robert M. Polhemus
- The avoidance of naturalism : Gissing, Moore, Grand, Bennett, and others / David Trotter
- Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie : imperialism to postcolonialism / Michael Gorra
- Bennett, Wells, and the persistence of realism / Robert Squillace
- Joseph Conrad / Daniel R. Schwarz
- D.H. Lawrence / Vincent P. Pecora
- Isherwood, Huxley, and the thirties / Michael Rosenthal
- James Joyce / Michael Seidel
- Virginia Woolf / Vicki Mahaffey
- Forster, Ford, and the new novel of manners / David Galef
- Samuel Beckett's postmodern fictions / Brian Finney
- Satire between the wars : Evelyn Waugh and others / George McCartney - The reaction against modernism : Amis, Snow, Wilson / Rubin Rabinovitz
- Sleeping with the enemy : Doris Lessing in the century of destruction / Lynne Hanley
- Drabble to Carter : fiction by women, 1962-1992 / Carol McGuirk
- The contemporary novel / Michael Wood
- Biographies of British novelists.
