This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that places Memoirs in the context of Cleland’s life and literary career. Also included is a broad selection of appendices, including Tobias Smollett’s review of the novel, selections from Cleland’s criticism, three texts by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and contemporary documents on masculinity (particularly the figures of the coxcomb and the fop) and prostitution.
Hal Gladfelder is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester, New York. He is the author of Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law (2001).