Introduction / Daniel Cook and Nicholas Seager
1. On authorship, appropriation, and eighteenth-century fiction / Daniel Cook
2. The afterlife of family romance / Michael McKeon
3. From Picaro to Pirate: afterlives of the Picaresque in early eighteenth-century fiction / Leah Orr
4. Ghosts of the guardian in Sir Charles Grandison and Bleak House / Sarah Raff
5. The novel's afterlife in the newspaper, 1712-1750 / Nicholas Seager
6. Wit and humour for the heart of sensibility: the beauties of Fielding and Sterne / M.-C. Newbould
7. The spectral iamb: the poetic afterlife of the late eighteenth-century novel / Dahlia Porter
8. Rethinking fictionality in the eighteenth-century puppet theatre / David A. Brewer
9. The novel in musical theatre: Pamela, Caleb Williams, Frankenstein and Ivanhoe / Michael Burden
10. Gillray's Gulliver and the 1803 invasion scare / David Francis Taylor
11. Defoe's cultural afterlife, mainly on screen / Robert Mayer
12. Happiness in Austen's Sense and Sensibility and its afterlife in film / Jill Heydt-Stevenson
13. Refreshing The History of England: Jane Austen's and 1066 and All That / Peter Sabor
Select bibliography.