Displacing the novel from the central position it has held in studies concerned with the origin or rise of the English novel, Satire, History, Novel considers novelistic forms as part of a network of
"Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twent
Focusing on the "long eighteenth century" in England (1660-1832), and the issues of representation, hybridity and ethics, contributors address gross metempsychosis and the Eastern soul, mixed ethnicit