Early British fiction, pre 1750

Contains hundreds of primary texts gathered from the holdings of major American and British libraries. Includes texts from serious novelists; women authors including Sarah Fielding and Aphra Behn; the works of Grub Street literary hacks; and, continental and other authors. Among the authors included are Defoe, Smollett and Fielding. Contemporary fiction of this period reflected, in one way or another, the political and social currents of the era.