Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Realism and the Rise of the Novel -- 1 Political Selfhood and Novelistic Character -- 2 Tory Ideology and Aphra Behn's Turn to the Novel -- 3 Daniel Defoe and the Whig Ideal of Selfhood -- 4 Partisan Debate and Moderation Politics in Samuel Richardson's Fiction -- 5 Jacobite Ideology and Eliza Haywood's Response to Whig Realism -- Conclusion: Partisan Realisms and Canon Formation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.