University Press Copublishing Division / Lehigh University Press
Pages: 268
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-61146-012-4 • Hardback • December 2010 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
Susan Carlile is associate professor of English at California State University, Long Beach.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part I: Challenging the Status Quo
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Marriage in Haywood; or, Amatory Reading Rewarded
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: The Unprotected Woman in Eliza Haywood's The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Lives, Letters, and Tales in Sarah Scott's Journey Through Every Stage of Life
Part 6 Part II: Educations in Epistemology
Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Sarah Fielding's Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia and the British Historical Novel
Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Arabella Unbound: Wit, Judgment, and the Cure of Lennox's Female Quixote
Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Henrietta on Page and Stage
Part 10 Part III: Creating Community
Chapter 11 Chapter 7: The "latent seeds of coquetry": Amatory Fiction and the 1750s Novel
Chapter 12 Chapter 8: "The Sole Business of Ladies in Romances": Sharing Histories in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote
Chapter 13 Chapter 9: "to such as are willing to understand": Considering Fielding's Community of Imagined Readers
Part 14 Part IV: Performing in the Literary Marketplace
Chapter 15 Chapter 10: The Afterlife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Haywood's Amatories (with Thoughts on Betsy Thoughtless)
Chapter 16 Chapter 11: Reading Female Readers: The Female Quixote and Female Quixotism
Chapter 17 Chapter 12: Putting Woemn in Their Place: Locating Women Novelists in the 1750s
Susan Carlile’s edited collection Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s, focuses on a vibrant but often overlooked period for the novel. The volume includes a strong range of essays by Kathryn King, Betty Schellenberg, Aleksondra Hultquist, Karen Cajka, Patricia Hamilton, Martha Kvande, and Carlile herself.
— The Year's Work In English Studies