Families of the Heart introduces surrogate families as a new literary device for analyzing a set of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney. This radical convention with its feminist and egalitarian potential, Campbell argues, allowed female protagonists to navigate the social world before and beyond marriage across the long eighteenth century.

ANN CAMPBELL has published articles about family, courtship and marriage, and pedagogy in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth-Century Women, Aphra Behn Online, and Digital Defoe. She is a professor of English at Boise State University in Idaho.

Introduction
1          Just Business: Surrogate Families as Entrepreneurial Ventures in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana
2          Building a Foundation for the Family of the Heart: Prototypes of Surrogate Families in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Pamela in her Exalted Condition
3          Perfecting the Family of the Heart: Relationship Remembered in Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison
4          An Affinity for Learning: Eliza Haywood's The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless and The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy
5          Adopting to Change: Choosing Family in Frances Burney's Evelina and Cecilia
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index