Varieties of Eighteenth-Century
Fiction
English 220, Fall 2008
Dr. Stephen Karian
Introductions and Overviews
Individual Authors
Introductions and Overviews
Baldick, Chris. "Novel"
and "Romance"
in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Frye, Northrop. "The Four Forms
of Prose Fiction." Hudson Review 2
(1950): 582-95. [VPN needed off-campus]
McKeon, Michael. "Generic Transformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel." Cultural Critique 1 (1985): 159-81. [VPN needed off-campus]
Hunter, J. Paul. "'News, and New Things': Contemporaneity and the Early English Novel." Critical Inquiry 14 (1988): 493-515. [VPN needed off-campus]
Armstrong, Nancy and Leonard Tennenhouse. "The American Origins of the English Novel." American Literary History 4 (1992): 386-410. [VPN needed off-campus]
Warner, William B. "The Elevation of the Novel in England: Hegemony and Literary History." ELH 59 (1992): 577-96. [VPN needed off-campus]
Brown, Homer. "The Institution of the English Novel: Defoe's Contribution." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 29 (1996): 299-318. [VPN needed off-campus]
Bender, John. "Enlightenment Fiction and the Scientific Hypothesis." Representations 61 (1998): 6-28. [VPN needed off-campus]
Individual Authors
Backscheider,
Paula R. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Stephen,
Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography.
1888.
Robinson
Crusoe (1719 edition) (ESTC t072264)
Probyn,
Clive. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Stephen,
Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography.
1898.
Kelly, Ann.
"Selected Bibliography: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)."
Backscheider,
Paula R. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Lee,
Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography.
1891.
Dussinger,
John A. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Stephen,
Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography.
1896.
Dussinger,
John A. "Selected Bibliography: Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)."
Pascoe,
Judith. "Before I Read Clarissa I
Was Nobody: Aspirational Reading and Samuel Richardson's Great Novel." Hudson
Review 56 (2003): 239-53. [VPN
needed off-campus; the essay is freely available here] An engaging
personal essay on the pride of being in the privileged club of
those-who-completed-Clarissa.
Kinkead-Weekes,
M. "Clarissa Restored?" Review
of English Studies, n.s. 10 (1959): 156-71.
[VPN needed off-campus] Explores the significance of material first included in
the second and third editions of the novel that emphasizes the moral import and
portrays Lovelace more negatively. Kinkead-Weekes shows that contra
Richardson's own claims, Richardson did not restore this material from his
original manuscript; rather, he added it in response to readers' misreadings.
The conclusion is that "the effect of the whole recension is of a lead
pencil at work on a chiaroscuro; hardening outlines and converting the blend of
light and shadow into a cruder black and white" (169).
Eaves,
T. C. Duncan and Ben D. Kimpel. "The Composition of Clarissa and its Revisions before Publication." PMLA 83 (1968): 416-28. [VPN needed
off-campus] Details the pre-publication drafting and readings of the novel at
least four years prior to the printing of the first installment.
Doody,
Margaret Anne and Florian Stuber. "Clarissa Censored." Modern Language Studies 18.1 (1988): 74-88. [VPN needed
off-campus] A passionate and detailed protest against George Sherburn's 1962
abridgment of Clarissa and a
strong argument against any abridgment of the novel. The essay simultaneously
functions as a valuable introduction to Clarissa.
Battestin,
Martin C. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Stephen,
Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography.
1888.
Charlotte Lennox (1730/31?-1804)
Amory,
Hugh. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Goodwin,
Gordon. Dictionary of National Biography.
1892.
New,
Melvyn. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Lee,
Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography.
1897.
Bowden,
Martha F. "Selected Bibliography: Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)."
Lynch, Jack. Tristram
Shandy: An Annotated Bibliography
Parish, Charles. "A Table of
Contents for Tristram Shandy." College
English 22 (1960): 143-50. [VPN needed off-campus]