For Percy G. Adams / Donald Kay -- Introduction /James E. Gill -- Popular narrative in the early eighteenth century / John Richetti -- Defoe and the geography of the mind / Paula R. Bachscheider -- Saying "no", saying "yes" / Margaret A. Doody -- Fielding / Sheridan Baker -- Smollett's / Jerry C. Beasley -- Structure, language, experience in the novels of Laurence Sterne / Howard Anderson -- Jane Austen's accomodations / Alistair M. Duckworth -- Books about the early English novel / Jack D. Durant.