Further Reading
Criticism
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 Literature 1730-1780. 2 vols. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1928.
Comprehensive review of the period, with chapters on Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Steme and others.
Görtschacher, Wolfgang and Klein, Holger. Narrative Strategies in Early English Fiction. Salzburg: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, 365 p.
Collection of essays on topics ranging from transformations of the romance to epistolary fiction.
Hill, Mary K. Bath and the Eighteenth Century Novel. Bath: Bath University Press, 1989, 76 p.
Historical study of representations of the city of Bath in works of fiction by Defoe, Fielding, Smollett, and others.
Mayo, Robert D. The English Novel in Magazines 1740-1815. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1962, 421.
History of the magazine tradition of prose fiction including serial novels and miscellanies.
McNeil, David. The Grotesque Depiction of War and the Military in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990, 229 p.
Study of eighteenth-century literary representations of war, with chapters on Smollett, Fielding, and Steme.
Petit, Alexander, Ed. Studies in the Novel, Special Number: Making Genre: Studies in the Novel or Something Like it, 1684-1762, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer, 1998.
Eleven essays on the development of the novel genre, with an introductory overview. Includes essays on women's amatory fiction, Fielding's Tom Jones, and responses to Richardson's Clarissa.
Relihan, Constance C. Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1994, 162 p.
Traces the history of the English novel to the Elizabethan period.
Richetti, John, Ed. The Columbia History of the British Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Extensive collection of critical essays with selections on women's novels, Fielding, Smollet, Steme, and Richardson.
Rogers, Katherine M. "Fantasy and Reality in Fictional Convents of the Eighteenth Century" in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, Fall, 1985, 297-316.
Discusses representations of convents in eighteenth-century fiction; includes commentary on Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison.
Spacks, Patricia Meyer. "Ev'ry Woman is at Heart a Rake" in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall, 1974, 27-46.
Discusses gender relations in eighteenth-century life and literature.
Williams, loan. Novel and Romance 1700-1800: A Documentary Record. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970, 451 p.
A collection of prefatory material and novel criticism from 1691-1798 with an introductory overview.
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