Novel:Bibliography

Contemporary Views

• Paul Scarron, The Comical Romance, Chapter XXI. „Which perhaps will not be found very Entertaining“ (London, 1700). Marteau
• Pierre Daniel Huet, „Traitté de l’origine des romans“, preface to Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne comtesse de La Fayette, Zayde, histoire espagnole (Paris, 1670). pdf-edition Gallica France
• [Du Sieur,] „Sentimens sur l’histoire“ in Sentimens sur les lettres et sur l’histoire, avec des scruples sur le stile (Paris: C. Blageart, 1680). Marteau
• Abbe Bellegarde, „Lettre à une Dame de la Cour, qui lui avoit demandé quelques Reflexions sur l’Histoire“ in Lettres curieuses de littérature et de morale (La Haye: Adrian Moetjens, 1702). Marteau
• [Anon.] Preface to Secret History of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians (Albigion, 1705). Marteau
• Review of the French translation of Delarivier Manley, New Atalantis 1709, in Deutsche Acta Eruditorum (Leipzig: J. L. Gleditsch, 1713). Marteau
• Jane Barker, preface to Exilius of the Banish’d Roman. A New Romance (London: E. Curll, 1715). Marteau
• [Johann Friedrich Riederer,] „Satyra von den Liebes-Romanen“, in Die abentheuerliche Welt in einer Pickelheerings-Kappe, 2 ([Nürnberg,] 1718). Marteau
• Henry Fielding, Vorrede zu Joseph Andrews (London, 1742). Munseys
• Christian Friedrich von Blankenburg, Versuch uber den Roman (Leipzig/ Liegnitz: D. S. Wittwe, 1774).

Nineteenth Century Views

• Carl Nicolai, Versuch einer Theorie des Romans (Quedlinburg, 1819).

The European Market

• Olaf Simons: Marteaus Europa oder Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde (Amsterdam/ Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001). ISBN 90-420-1226-9
• Mander, Jenny (ed.), Remapping the rise of the European novel. SVEC 2007:10. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7294-0916-2.

The English Market

• Ian Watt, 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).
• McKeon, Michael, The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).
• Spender, Dale, Mothers of the Novel. 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen (London/ New York, 1986).
• Michael McKeon, The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740 (Baltimore, 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
• McKeon, Michael, Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
• Olaf Simons: Marteaus Europa oder Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde (Amsterdam/ Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001). ISBN 90-420-1226-9
• 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
• Kate Loveman. Reading fictions, 1660-1740. Aldershot, Hants, England/ Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7546-6237-2
• Stuart Sim. The eighteenth-century novel and contemporary social issues : an introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2008. ISBN 0-7486-2600-X

The German Market

• Olaf Simons: Marteaus Europa oder Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde (Amsterdam/ Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001). ISBN 90-420-1226-9
• Cornelia Hobohm (ed.). Menantes: ein Dichterleben zwischen Barock und Aufklärung. Palmbaum Texte, 21. Bucha bei Jena: Quartus-Verl., 2006. ISBN 3-936455-33-3
• Florian Gelzer. Konversation, Galanterie und Abenteuer : romaneskes Erzählen zwischen Thomasius und Wieland. Frühe Neuzeit, 125. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2007. ISBN 978-3-484-36625-1

Links

• The ratio of male and female authors in the late 18th and early 19th centuries - Douglas Galbi, March 31st 2008 link