Bringing together work by distinguished and younger scholars, Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered takes seriously the connections between poetry and novels in the period between Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House and Amelia Opie's Romanic-era novels.

ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Poetry, Novels, People, Things 1Courtney Weiss SmithPart I: Reconsidering Genres: Rising, Borrowing, Circulating1 Heroic Couplets and Eighteenth-Century Heroism: Pope's Complicated CharactersSophie Gee2 "The Battle Without Killing": Eliza Haywood and the Politics of Attempted RapeKate Parker3 The Novel's Poem Envy: Mid-Century Fiction and the "Thing Poem"Christina Lupton and Aran Ruth4 "To delineate the human mind in its endless varieties": Integral Lyric and Characterization in the Tales of Amelia OpieShelley KingPart II: Reconsidering Subjects and Objects5 Undividing the Subject of Literary History: From James Thomson's Poetry to Daniel Defoe's NovelsWolfram Schmidgen6 The Rise of the Novel and the Fall of PersonificationHeather Keenleyside7 "Light electric touches": Sterne, Poetry, and Empirical EroticsDavid Fairer8 "Great labour both of mind and tongue": Articulacy and Interiority in Young's Night Thoughts and Richardson's ClarissaJoshua Swidzinski9 The Art of Attention: Navigating Distraction and Rhythms of Focus in Eighteenth-Century PoetryNatalie PhillipsCoda: Time, Space, and the Poetic Mind of the NovelMargaret DoodyBibliographyNotes on Contributors