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A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenthcentury fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a truism that the period's literature is distinguished by its realism and air of probability, EighteenthCentury Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder argues that wonder is integral torather than antithetical tothe developing techniques of novelistic fiction. Positioning its reader on the cusp between recognition and estrangement, between faith and doubt, modern fiction hinges upon wonder.EighteenthCentury Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder unfolds its new account of fiction's rise through surprising readings of classic early novelsfrom Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbeyand brings to attention lesserknown works, most notably Rudolf Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels. In this bold new account, the eighteenth century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's relocation from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a reevaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.
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