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Baker, Ernest A. The History of the English Novel, vols. III-V. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. 10 vols., 1950.

Selection from a comprehensive history of the novel. The volumes cited focus on the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, discussing the romance, the development of realism, the novel of sentiment, and the Gothic novel.

Butt, John. The Mid-Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.

Survey of English literature after 1740, with chapters on major novelists and other prose fiction.

Cruse, Amy. The Shaping of English Literature and the Reader's Share in the Development of its Forms. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. nd.

Studies the development of English literature by focusing on reader responses to contemporary authors. Included a chapter on books and authors read and discussed by Fanny Bumey.

Elton, Oliver. A Survey of English...

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Overviews
4. From Romanticism To Realism
5. Women And The Novel
6. The Novel And Other Literary Forms
7. Further Reading
8. Copyright

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