April London. Women and Properly in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 262. $59.95. ISBNO-521-650135.

Abstract

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Samuel Richardson and Georgic: Introduction 1. Clarissa and the georgic mode 2. Making meaning as constructive labor 3. Wicked confederacies 4. 'The work of bodies': reading, writing and documents Part II. Pastoral: Introduction 5. The Man of Feeling 6. Colonial narratives: Charles Wentworth and The Female American Part III. Community and Confederacy: Introduction 7. Versions of community: William Dodd, Sarah Scott, Clara Reeve 8. Confederacies of women: Phebe Gibbes and John Trusler Part IV. The Politics of Reading: Introduction 9. The discourse of manliness: Samuel Jackson Pratt and Robert Bage 10. The gendering of radical representation 11. History, romance, and the anti-Jacobins' 'common sense' 12. Jane West and the politics of reading Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.