Eighteenth-Century British Novel (3420), spring 2002

Recommended critical readings (on reserve) keyed to list of reserve books (at end)

"the novel"
Hunter, part 1
McKeon, Introduction
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
McKeon, ch 12
Rawson (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)

McKeon, Michael, Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1987).

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)