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Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Poetry, Novels, People, Things 1 Courtney Weiss Smith Part I: Reconsidering Genres: Rising, Borrowing, Circulating 1 Heroic Couplets and Eighteenth-Century Heroism: Pope's Complicated Characters Sophie Gee 2 Battle Without Killing: Eliza Haywood and the Politics of Attempted Rape Kate Parker 3 The Novel's Envy: Mid-Century Fiction and the Thing Poem Christina Lupton and Aran Ruth 4 To delineate the human mind in its endless varieties: Integral Lyric and Characterization in the Tales of Amelia Opie Shelley King Part II: Reconsidering Subjects and Objects 5 Undividing the Subject of Literary History: From James Thomson's Poetry to Daniel Defoe's Novels Wolfram Schmidgen 6 The Rise of the Novel and the Fall of Personification Heather Keenleyside 7 Light electric touches: Sterne, Poetry, and Empirical Erotics David Fairer 8 Great labour both of mind and tongue: Articulacy and Interiority in Young's Night Thoughts and Richardson's Clarissa Joshua Swidzinski 9 The Art of Attention: Navigating Distraction and Rhythms of Focus in Eighteenth-Century Poetry Natalie Phillips Coda: Time, Space, and the Poetic Mind of the Novel Margaret Doody Bibliography Notes on Contributors

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