About the Eighteenth-Century Fiction Database

Welcome to Eighteenth Century Fiction. The database comprises the works of 30 of the most influential writers of the British Isles in the eighteenth century. It contains 77 collected works or 96 discrete items, of which 71 are first editions.

Editorial Policy

An editorial advisory board slected the authors for inclusion in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. The aim of the database is not to be definitive, but to provide a representative selection of texts from the eighteenth century; both those familiar to the modern reader and those popular when first published. The database gathers as complete a corpus as possible for the major authors of the period, such as Fielding, Richardson, Defoe, Sterne and Smollett. The strong representation of female authors and lesser-known writers augments this corpus, thereby providing a thorough and balanced collection. The general editorial policy has been to use first editions for preference, except when, in the view of the board, a later edition demonstrates a significant change in authorial intent.

The first London edition of Tristam Shandy has been scanned as well as keyed, so that its typographic idiosyncrasies can be clearly displayed.

Each work in the database is keyed in full, including any notes and any supplementary or prefatory material, with the general exception of publishers' advertisements.

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