Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

James L. Clifford, Columbia University

Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia

Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles

Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles

Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

James Sutherland, University College, London

H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 

Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT 

Mary Kerbret, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 

INTRODUCTION

A standard modern history of the English novel speaks ofi "the appearance of the novel round about 1700. Nothing that preceded it in the way of prose fiction can explain it."1 Though today many scholars would assert that "nothing" is too strong a term, just how much of the original fiction written under the later Stuarts could "explain" Defoe and Richardson? Most late seventeenth-century novels, it is true, are rogue biographies, scandal-chronicles, translations 

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