A selective bibliography of open access articles on eighteenth century British literature, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
Account of Rise of the Novel Annotated bibliography of studies on the eighteenth century novel, beginning with Ian Watt's 1957 study and listing responses to Watt. By Laura Mandell, Miami Univ.
Should McKeon Replace Watt? A review of Michael McKeon. The Origins of the English Novel, 1600--1740 in Univ. of Toronto Quarterly, 58, 4 (Summer 1989) by Brian Corman
Anthologizing the Novel. Summarizes various critical approaches to the novel over the past 100 years and reviews Michael McKeon, ed., Theory of the Novel: An Historical Approach. By Eric Leuschner in the Minnesota Review (2002)
Rewriting the rise of the novel, a review of Clifford Siskin, The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830 and William B. Warner, Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Univ. of California Press, 1998), in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Summer 1999 by Thompson, James
The Early American Novel an outline of issues and relevant novels, by Donna Campbell, Gonzaga Univ.
Syllabus for a class on novel theory reading for a demanding and theoretical class on the novel at Berkeley. English 202: Novel Theory, Narrative Theory, and the Sociology of the Novel, Professor Kent Puckett
"Libertine America" by Leonard Tennenhouse, from differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (Volume 11, Number 3). On American novel reading and seduction plots in the last two decades of the eighteenth century.
The mid-century "ramble" novels On the "mass of comic or semi-comic 'lives,' 'histories,' 'rambles' and 'adventures'" consumed by the English reading public in the mid-eighteenth century. Stanford Center for the Study of the Novel, Dissertation of the Month: February 2001, Chapter 8, by Simon Dickie.
The Center for the Study of the Novel at Stanford University publishes several "dissertations of the month" and a few articles on their web site, on highly specialized subjects, along with a calendar of events.
Enlightenment Fiction and the Scientific Hypothesis, by John Bender, in Representations Vol. 60 (Winter 1997), pp1-23. "In this essay, I view the eighteenth-century novel as part of a cultural system that worked to validate Enlightenment canons of knowledge by dynamically linking the realms of science and fiction in the very process of setting them in opposition."
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, An international quarterly published in French and English devoted to the critical and historical investigation of imaginative prose of the period 1660-1832, publishes article titles from July 1989 and the full-text of articles from three older issues: on Evelina, Fiction and Space, and Fiction and the Law.
Lecture notes for Rise of the Novel, North East Wales Institute of Higher Ed
Specialized Bibliography: the Gothic of Non-Gothic English Writers in the Eighteenth Century, from a web site devoted to Gothic literature
Bibliography of secondary criticism for the eighteenth century novel, from Mantex educational publishers.
Primary and secondary reading list for class in The Rise of the Novel, by Dr. David Richter, CUNY
updated 5/30/2005 | 2005-2007 by Donna J. Pridmore