Contents 1. Introduction: Fantastic Elements in Narratives of Eighteenth-Century Britain ........................................................................ 1 2. Contexts and Theoretical Framework ............................................................ 10 2.1 Literature with Fantastic Elements in Eighteenth-Century Britain ........ 11 2.1.1 Problems with Defining ‘Fantastic’ .......................................... 11 2.1.2 Focus on Fantastic Elements in this Study ............................... 17 2.1.3 Eighteenth-Century Theories of the Fantastic ........................... 20 2.1.4 Eighteenth-Century Narrative Genres and the Use of Fantastic Elements ............................................. 26 2.2 Subjectivity ........................................................................................... 30 2.2.1 Terms and Concepts ................................................................. 31 2.2.2 Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Society, and Fiction ................................................................................ 38 3. Fantastic Intrusions ........................................................................................ 49 3.1 Narratives of Wonder and Providence ................................................... 50 3.1.1 Wonder Literature and Providence Literature .......................... 52 3.1.2 The Duncan Campbell Narratives ............................................ 61 3.1.3 Wonder, Providence, and the Novel ......................................... 79 3.2 Apparition Narratives, Letters from the Dead, and the Gothic .............. 86 3.2.1 Apparition Narratives and Ghost Stories .................................. 87 3.2.2 Letters from the Dead: Elizabeth Singer Rowe’s Friendship in Death ................................................................. 102 3.2.3 Gothic Beginnings: Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto ............................................................... 109 4. Fantastic Travels ............................................................................................ 121 4.1 The Tradition of Fantastic Voyages ...................................................... 122 4.2 Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels ...................................................... 130 4.3 Gulliveriana ........................................................................................... 142 4.4 Fantastic Voyages of the Mid-Century .................................................. 151 5. Fantastic Worlds ........................................................................................... 166 5.1 Fairy Tales ............................................................................................. 167 5.2 British Oriental Tales with Fantastic Elements ..................................... 187 6. Fantastic Perspectives: It-Narratives ............................................................. 204 7. Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 216 Bibliography ......................................................................................................... 220
