Eighteenth-Century British Novel (3420)

Recommended critical readings (on reserve) and list of reserve books

(You may use these for your presentations, but each presentation must include at least one recent journal article.)

"the novel"
Hunter, part 1
McKeon (in Damrosch) (also in Kroll 1)
Warner, ch 1
Bender (in Kroll 1)
Armstrong, ch 1
Castle (in Kroll 1)

Defoe, Moll Flanders
Richetti, ch 3: 52-64
Brown (in Kroll 1)
Watt, ch 4
Novak (in Cambridge) (overview)

Richardson, Pamela
Armstrong, ch 3: 96-134 (also in Kroll 1)
Van Sant (in Kroll 1)
Warner, ch 5
Watt, ch 5
Doody (in Cambridge) (overview)

Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Campbell (in Kroll 1)
Richetti, ch 5: pp. 121-35
Warner, ch 6
Watt, ch 8
Rawson (in Cambridge) (overview)

Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Lamb (in Kroll 2)
Lanham (in Damrosch)
Lamb (in Cambridge) (overview)

Burney, Evelina
Gallagher, ch 5: 203-27
Epstein (in Cambridge)
Spacks (in Damrosch) (background)
Spencer (in Cambridge) (overview of women writers)

on reserve:

Armstrong, Nancy, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (New York; Oxford Univ. Press, 1987)

"Cambridge": The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. John Richetti (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996)

"Damrosch": Modern Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed. Leopold Damrosch, Jr. (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988)

Gallagher, Catherine, Nobody’s Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1994)

Hunter, J. Paul, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (New York: Norton, 1990)

"Kroll 1": The English Novel: 1700 to Fielding, ed. Richard Kroll (New York: Longman, 1998)

"Kroll 2": The English Novel: Smollett to Austen, ed. Richard Kroll (New York: Longman, 1998)

Richetti, John, The English Novel in History, 1700-1780 (New York: Routledge, 1999)

Warner, William B., Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1998)

Watt, Ian, The Rise of the Novel (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1957).