Partisan Politics, Narrative Realism, and the Rise of the British Novel

RACHEL K. CARNELL is Associate Professor of English, Cleveland State University, USA.

Introduction: Realism and the Rise of the Novel Political Discourse and the Abstract Individual Proto-Novelistic Propaganda and Narrative Realism Tory Ideology and Aphra Behn's Turn to the Novel Daniel Defoe and the Whig Ideal of Selfhood Character and Politics in Samuel Richardson's Fiction Jacobite Ideology and Eliza Haywood's Response to Whig Realism Nature, Systems, and the Individual