Introduction: The created self.--Moll Flanders: 'The satire of the age'.--Clarissa: A process of estrangement.--Clarissa: A form of freedom.--Tom Jones: Plot as irony.--Tom Jones: The 'pursuit of true judgment'.--Tristram Shandy: The reader as author.--Tristram Shandy: The author as reader.--Coda: The reader as actor.--Bibliography (p. 212-217).
Summary
The author presents an interpretation of four novels: Moll Flanders, Clarissa, Tom Jones, and Tristram Shandy.
