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The 18th century novel

a select bibliography

Paula R. Backscheider and J. Richetti, Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Ros Ballaster, Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

G.J. Barker-Benfield, The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth Century Britain, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Edith Birkenhead,The Tale of Terror, New York: Russell and Russell, 1963.

Fred Botting, Gothic, London: Routledge, 1996.


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R.F. Brissenden, Virtue in Distress: Studies in the Novel of Sentiment from Richardson to Sade, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1974.

John Carroll (ed), Samuel Richardson: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1969.

Terry Castle, Clarissa's Ciphers, London: Cornell University Press, 1982.

Edward Copeland, Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England 1790-1820, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Rose Marie Cutting, 'Defiant Women: The Growth of Feminism in Fanney Burney's Novels', Studies in English Literature 17, 1977, pp.19-30.

Joanne Cutting-Gray, Women as 'Nobody' and the Novels of Fanney Burney, Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 1992.

Margaret Anne Doody and Peter Sabor (eds), Samuel Richardson: Tercentenary Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

T.C. Duncan Eaves and Ben H. Kimpel, Samuel Richardson: A Biography, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

Terry Eagleton, The Rape of Clarissa: Sexuality and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson, Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.

Kate Ferguson Ellis, The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Markman Ellis, The Politics of Sensibility: Race, gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Julia Epstein, The Iron Pen: Frances Burney and the Politics of Women's Writing, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Robert A. Erickson, Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex and Fate in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne), New York: AMS Press, 1986.

Catherine Gallagher, Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace 1670-1820, California: University of California Press, 1994.

Rita Goldberg, Sex and EnlightenmentWomen in Richardson and Diderot, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Morris Golden, Richardson's Characters, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1963.

Irwin Gopnik, A Theory of Style in Richardson's Clarissa, The Hague: Moutton, 1970.

Joyce Hemlow, 'Fanney Burney and the Courtesy Books', PMLA 65, 1950, pp.732-761.

Christopher Hill, 'Clarissa harlow and her Times', Essays in Criticism V, 1955, pp.315-340.

Jacqueline Howard, Reading Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Carol Ann Howells, Feeling in Gothic Fiction, London: Athlone, 1995.

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

Vivien Jones (ed), Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity, London: Routledge, 1990.

Madeleine Kahn, Narrative Transvestitism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, London: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Frederick R. Karl, A Reader's Guide to the Development of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century, London: Thames and Hudson, 1974.

Tom Keymer, Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth-Century Reader, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Mark Kinkead-Weekes, Samuel Richardson: Dramatic Novelist, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.

B.G. MacCarthy, The Female Pen: Women Writers and Novelists 1621-1818, Cork: Cork University Press, 1994.

Michael McKeon, The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Alan Dugdale McKillop, Samuel Richardson: Printer and Novelist, N. Carolina: The Shoe String Press, 1960.

Ellis Markham, The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Michelle A. Massé, In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism and the Gothic, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Thais E. Morgan (ed), Men Writing the Feminine, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

David B. Morris, 'Gothic Sublimity', New Literary History 16, 1985, pp.305-316.

John Mullan, Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Judith Lowder Newton, Women, Power and Subversion: Social Struggles in British Fiction 1778-1860, New York: Methuen, 1985.

André Parreux, The Publication of The Monk, Paris: Librairie Marcel Didier, 1960.

Mary Poovey, 'Ideology and the Mysteries of Udolpho', Criticism 29, 1979, pp.311-326.

David Punter, The Literature of Terror, London Longman, 1996.

John Richetti (ed), The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

John Richetti, Popular Fiction before Richardson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.

John Ricchetti, The English Novel in History 1700-1780, London: Routledge, 1998.

Isabel Rivers (ed), Books and their readers in Eighteenth-Century England, Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1982.

Pat Rogers, Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture, London: Methuen, 1972.

Mona Scheuermann, Her Bread to Earn - Women, Money and Society from Defoe to Austen, Kentucky: Kentucky University Press, 1993.

Mona Scheuermann, 'Women and Money in Eitheenth-Century Fiction', Studies in the Novel 19, 1987, pp.311-322.

Mary Anne Scofield and Cecilia Macheski (eds), Fetter'd or Free? British Women Novelists 1670-1815, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1986.

Eve Sedgwick, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions, London: Methuen, 1980.

Judy Simons, Fanney Burney, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987.

Gillian Skinner, The Price of a Tear: Sensibility and Economics in the Novel 1740-1800, London: Macmillan, 1999.

Patricia Meyer Spacks, Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Robert D. Spector, Essays on the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965.

Jane Spencer, The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen, Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

Dale Spender, Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers before Jane Austen, London: Pandora, 1986.

Susan Staves, 'British Seduced Maidens', Eighteenth-Century Studies 14, 1980-81, pp.109-134.

Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.

Kristina Straub, Divided Fictions: Frances Burney and Feminine Strategy, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

Janet Todd, The Sign of Angelica: Women, Writing and Fiction 1660-1800, London: Virago, 1989.

Janet Todd, Sensibility: An Introduction, London: Methuen, 1986.

Cheryl Turner, Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century, London: Routledge, 1992.

J.M.S. Tompkins, The Popular Novel in England 1770-1800, London: Constable, 1932.

Eleanor Ty, Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists in the 1790s, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Sudesh Vaid, The Divided Mind: Studies in Defoe and Richardson, New Delhi: Associated Publishing House, 1979.

William Warner, Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.

Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel, London: Chatto and Windus, 1957.

Clara H. Whitmore, Women's Work in English Fiction From the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian Period, London: The Knickerbocker Press, 1910.

Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Samuel Richardson and the Eighteenth-Century Puritan Character, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1972.

Susan Wolstenholme, Gothic Revisions, New York: State University of New York Press, 1993.

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