Frederick Garber studies in a wide range of English, French, German, and American literary texts instances of the struggle for the self's autonomy during the pe

Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans (Princeton,

The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area. In addition to Daniel Defoe, whose Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders are

General Manley Hopkins was not alone among Victorians in his attention to the human self and to the particularities of things in the world around him, where he

Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the developm