Sarah Alderfer, “Politics, Deception, and the Novel”
Review of Kate Loveman, Reading Fictions, 1660–1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture (Ashgate, 2008)

Susan Carlile, “Politics: The Business of a Woman”
Review of Rachel Carnell, A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley (Pickering & Chatto, 2008)

Shelly Charles, “L’homme sans qualités: l’abbé Prévost, ou l’écrivain à l’école du commerce”
Review of Rori Bloom, Man of Quality, Man of Letters: The Abbé Prévost Between Novel and Newspaper (Bucknell, 2009)

Ian Higgins, “Jonathan Swift’s Political Biography”
Review of David Oakleaf’s A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift (Pickering & Chatto, 2008)

Elaine McGirr, “Genre and Gender: Time for an Inclusive Literary History”
Review of Emily Hodgson Anderson, Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction (Routledge, 2009)

Sally O’Driscoll, “Nostalgia for ‘Inherent Perfection’: The Incorporation of Balladry into Poetry Itself”
Review of Maureen N. McLane, Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge, 2008)

Laura Rosenthal, “Men Behaving Badly”
Review of Erin Mackie, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates: The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins, 2009)

Beth Kowaleski Wallace, “Oh You Beautiful Doll: Objects in Eighteenth-Century Culture“
Review of Julie Park, The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford, 2010)

The Editors would like to thank the following Editorial Assistants for this volume: Ly’Tanya Culbert, Kolbe Krzyzanowski, Marie M. Mayhugh, Rebekkah Owens, Sandi Parker, and Erin York.