2008 MM Origins of the Novel 1473-1700

Literature

• Watt, Ian, The Rise of the Novel. Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding (London, 1957).
• Richetti, John J., Popular Fiction before Richardson. Narrative Patterns 1700-1739 (Oxford, 1969).
• Spufford, Magaret, Small Books and Pleasant Histories (London, 1981).
• Davis, Lennard J., Factual Fictions. The Origins of the English Novel (New York, 1983).
• McKeon, Michael, "Generic Transformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel," Cultural Critique, 1 (1985). [repr. in Damrosch, Leopold Jr., Modern Essays on Eighteenth Century Literature (New York/ Oxford, 1988), p.159-81.
• Spencer, Jane, The Rise of Woman Novelists. From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen (Oxford, 1986).
• Spender, Dale, Mothers of the Novel. 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen (London/ New York, 1986).
• McKeon, Michael, The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).
• Todd, Janet, The Sign of Angellica. Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1660-1800 (London, 1989).
• Hunter, Paul J., Before Novels. The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction (New York/ London, 1990).
• Relihan, Constance Caroline, Fashioning authority: the development of Elizabethan novelistic discourse (Kent, Ohio/ London: Kent State University Press, 1994). ISBN 0873384954
• Watt, Tessa, Cheap print and popular piety: 1550-1640 [=Cambridge studies in early modern British history] (Cambridge: 1994). ISBN 0-521-45827-7, ISBN 0-521-38255-6
• Doody, Margaret Anne, The true story of the novel (London: Fontana Press, 1996). ISBN 0-00-686379-5
• Relihan, Constance C. (ed.), Framing Elizabethan fictions: contemporary approaches to early modern narrative prose (Kent, Ohio/ London: Kent State University Press, 1996). ISBN 0873385519
• Reconsidering The Rise of the Novel - Eighteenth Century Fiction, Volume 12, Number 2-3, ed. David Blewett (January-April 2000). ASIN: B000MV7YGA Amazon
• Michael McKeon, Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
• Simons, Olaf, Marteaus Europa, oder, Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001).
• Relihan, Constance C./ Goran V. Stanivukovic (eds.), Prose fiction and early modern sexuality in England, 1570-1640 (New York/ Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). ISBN 1403963886
• Mentz, Steve, Romance for sale in early modern England: the rise of prose fiction (Aldershot [etc.]: Ashgate, 2006). ISBN 0-7546-5469-9
• Raymond, Joad, Pamphlets and pamphleteering in early modern Britain [=Cambridge studies in early modern British history] (Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006). ISBN 0-521-02877-9