Introduction:Secret History of Queen Zarah (1705)
From Marteau
The present edition of The Secret History of Queen Zarah might need another proof reading, some more commentary and an introduction.
For a discussion of the preface and its sources see the separate Marteau Edition.
Literature
- John L. Sutton, Jr., "The Source of Mrs. Manley’s Preface to Queen Zarah", Modern Philology, 82.2 (1984), 167-172.
- Michael McKeon, The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740 (Baltimore, 1987).
- “Reconsidering the Rise of the Novel”, Eighteenth Century Fiction, vol. 12, No. 2-3 (2000).
- Olaf Simons, Marteaus Europa oder Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001).
- J. A. Downie, "What if Delarivier Manley Did Not Write The Secret History of Queen Zarah?", The Library (2004) 5(3):247-264 [1]