CONTENTS: Foreword. Marie E. McAllister, "Pox Imagery in Clarissa"; Sarah Eron, "Genius, Muse: Inspiration and Invocation in Fielding's Tom Jones; Hilary Havens, "Patronage in the Novels and Letters of Charlotte Lennox"; Patricia Hamilton, "`The Only Excellence of Falsehood': Rethinking Samuel Johnson's Role in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote"; Bonnie Latimer, "Courting Dominion: Sir Charles Grandison, Sir George Ellison, and the Organizing Principle of Masculinity"; Mercy Cannon, "Productive Lives and Disabled Bodies in Millenium Hall"; Kathryn Ready, "The Lapdog of Luxury and Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; Hannah J. Doherty, "Robert Bage's Novel Merchandise: Commercialism, Gender, and Form in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction; Geremy Carnes, "`Let not religion be named between us': Catholic Struggle and the Religious Context of Feminism in A Simple Story"; Mark Zunac, "The `Deceitful Poison of Hope': Disillusionment and the Critique of the New Philosophy in Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney"; Maximillian E. Novak, "Ideological Tendencies in Three Crusoe Narratives by British Novelists during the Period Following the French Revolution: Charles Dibdin's Hannah Hewit, The Female Crusoe, Maria Edgeworth's Forester, and Frances Burney's The Wanderer"; Lynda A. Hall, "Valuing the Superfluous Spinster: Miss Bates and the Struggle to Remain Visible"; Jarrod Hurlbert, "Exploring Pamela's Textuality in the Classroom: Some Pedagogical Practices". Book Reviews. Index.