First published in 1936. UVA professor Shepperson [1897-1962] must have enjoyed created this survey of burlesque and parody-burlesque novels. With a chapter on Richardson and Fielding and Shamela; 'The Offspring of Tristram Shandy;' 'The Mock Romances, or Don Quixote in Pettycoats;' 'Antidotes to Sentimentaility;' 'Jane Austen's Sense and Other People's Sensibility;' 'Gothic Nonsense;' and more. On Austen, he spends time on her juvenilia, as well as S&S, NA, Plan of a Novel, and Sanditon, and discusses her as a critic of literature. X-Library but very good condition. No jacket. Scarce in this edition. Octagon Books, Inc. by special arrangement with Harvard University Press. 1967. Hb. USED. $20.00