Eponymous: Or, Eighteenth-century novelists liked using names as titles

Talking to someone at the birthday party this weekend, I was asked which novels I'm writing my dissertation on. The list made me realize just how many eighteenth-century novels are titled after their heroine's names (and how protagonists in eighteenth-century fiction are routinely referred to as "heroes" and "heroines" in the scholarship).

From my dissertation, four out of five:
Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson
Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, by Frances Burney
Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth
Emma, by Jane Austen (along with Mansfield Park)

And then...
Moll Flanders and Roxana, by Daniel Defoe
Evelina and Camilla, by Frances Burney
Shamela and Amelia, by Henry Fielding (who is more famous for the likewise eponymous Tom Jones and Joesph Andrews)
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, by Eliza Haywood
Adeline Mowbray, by Amelia Opie
Pamela, by Samuel Richardson
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, by Frances Sheridan
The History of Miss Emily Montagu, by Frances Brooke

The above list was compiled from my bookshelf alone. There are plenty more, but I think I've made my point.

There are also many novels named after their heroes, such as Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and Sterne's wonderfully titled The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. But it turns out that a dissertation about domestic interiors leads me to write about novels about women. I wonder why that is.

Speaking of writing and eponymous novels, I have started chapter two, which is on Frances Burney's Cecilia. However, I'm experiencing a weird brain fart where, as I type, I think "Clarissa" (the topic of my first chapter), but then I type "Cecilia". It's like my brain is eight months behind my fingers.

Chapter Two:
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