introduction licesing pleasure:literary history and the novel in early modern britain defoe and early narrative sex,lies,and invisidility:a matory fiction from the restoration to mid-century richardson and his circle fielding and the novel at mid-century from swift to smollett:the satirical tradition in prose narrative sterne:comedian and experimental novelist sentimental novels of the later eighteenth frances burney and the rise of the woman novelist the gothic novel,1764-1824 novels of the 1790s:action and impasse jane austen walter scottl:narrative,history,synthesis a novel of their own:romantic women's fiction,1790-1830 ……