Eighteenth-century poetry and the rise of the novel reconsidered

Heroic Couplets and Eighteenth-Century Heroism: Pope's Complicated Characters / Sophie Gee

"The Battle Without Killing": Eliza Haywood and the Politics of Attempted Rape / Kate Parker

Novel's Poem Envy: Mid-Century Fiction and the "Thing Poem" / Christina Lupton and Aran Ruth

"To delineate the human mind in its endless varieties": Integral Lyric and Characterization in the Tales of Amelia Opie / Shelley King

Undividing the Subject of Literary History: From James Thomson's Poetry to Daniel Defoe's Novels / Wolfram Schmidgen

Rise of the Novel and the Fall of Personification / Heather Keenleyside

"Light Electric Touches": Sterne, Poetry, and Empirical Erotics / David Fairer

"Great Labour Both of Mind and Tongue": Articulacy and Interiority in Young's Night Thoughts and Richardson's Clarissa / Joshua Swidzinski

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.