Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Tables

pp viii-viii

Appendixes

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgments

pp x-xii

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Rethinking the Secular at the Origins of the English Novel

pp 13-64

1 - A Secular for Literary Studies

pp 15-36

Chapter 2 - The Bible, the Novel, and the Veneration of Culture

pp 37-64

Part II - Versions of Biblical Authority

pp 65-154

Chapter 3 - Sanctifying Commodity: The English Bible Trade around the Atlantic, 1660–1799

pp 67-93

Chapter 4 - Prop of the State: Biblical Criticism and the Forensic Authority of the Bible

pp 94-124

Chapter 5 - Object of Intimacy: Devotional Uses of the Eighteenth-Century Bible

pp 125-154

Part III - Uses of Scripture for Fiction

pp 155-261

Chapter 6 - Traveling Papers: Pilgrim’s Progress and the Book

pp 157-178

Chapter 7 - Surprised by Providence: Robinson Crusoe as Defoe’s Theory of Fiction

pp 179-201

Chapter 8 - Resilient to Narrative: Clarissa after Reading

pp 202-230

Chapter 9 - Breaking Down Shame: Narrating Trauma and Repair in Tristram Shandy

pp 231-257

Conclusion

pp 258-261

Appendices

pp 262-271

Appendix 1 - The appearance of the Bible as a physical object in Early English Prose Fiction (EEPF) and Eighteenth-Century Fiction (ECF), 1500–1780

pp 262-263

Appendix 2 - The appearance of the Bible as a physical object, prose fiction in English, Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO), 1701–1799

pp 264-265

Appendix 3

pp 266-267

Appendix 4

pp 268-269

Appendix 5

pp 270-271

Notes

pp 272-295

Works Cited

pp 296-319