From the Book - First edition.
Part I. Fiction in the marketplace. Authorship, publication, reception (1) : 1470-1660 / Paul Salzman
Authorship, publication, reception (2) : 1660-1750 / Robert D. Hume
Cross-sections (1) : 1516-1520 / Cathy Shrank
Cross-sections (2) : 1596-1600 / Lori Humphrey Newcomb
Cross-sections (3) : 1666-1670 / James Grantham Turner
Cross-sections (4) : 1716-1720 / Pat Rogers
Part II. Early modern fiction
Fiction and the origins of print / Alexandra Gillespie
English fiction and the ancient novel / Robert H.F. Carver
Chivalric romance and novella collections / Helen Moore
Euphuism and courtly fiction / Nandini Das
Nashe and satire / Tiffany Stern
Elizabethan popular romance and the popular novel / R.W. Maslen
'The conjunction cannot be hurtful'? : Sidney's Arcadia and mingled genres / Gavin Alexander
Utopian fiction / Daniel Carey
Royalist romance? / Steven N. Zwicker
Picaresque and rogue fiction / Simon Dickie
Cervantes, anti-romance, and the novella / Brean Hammond
Rabelaisian comedy and satire / Nicholas McDowell
Bunyan and religious allegory / Michael Davies
Part III. Restoration fiction and the rise of the novel. Formal experimentation and theories of fiction / Nicholas Hudson
Non-fictional discourses and the novel / John Richetti
Finding their accounts : autobiography, novel, and the move from self 'to you-ward' / Stuart Sherman
Classical French fiction and the restoration novel / Ros Ballaster
Epistolary fiction / Toni Bowers
Pornography and the novel / Paul Baines
Restoration theatre and the novel / Jenny Davidson
Exploration, expansion, and the early novel / Cynthia Wall
Arabian nights and Oriental spies / James Watt
The rise of the Irish novel / Moyra Haslett
Amatory and scandal fiction / Jane Spencer
Defoe, journalism, and the early English novel : contexts and models / J. Paul Hunter
Swift, satire, and the novel / Claude Rawson
The Pamela debate / Thomas Lockwood
Clarissa and Tom Jones / J.A. Downie
'Moral romance' and the novel at mid-century / Peter Sabor.