A Short List on Origins

Adams, Percy G Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel. Lexington, UP of Kentucky, 1983.

Benedict, Barbara Making the Modern Reader. Princeton UP, 1996.

Cross, Wilbur L. Development of the English Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1948.

Davis, Lennard J.Factual Fictions. New York: Columbia UP, 1983.

Day, Geoffrey. From Fiction to the Novel. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.

Day, Robert. Told in Letters, Epistolary Fiction Before Richardson. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1966.

Dobree, Bonamy. English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.

Doody, Margaret. True Story of the Novel. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Folkenflik, Robert. "The Heirs of Ian Watt." Eighteenth Century Studies 25 (1991-92) 203-217.

Hunter, J. Paul. Before Novels. New York: Norton, 1990.

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

- - -. "Generic Transformation and Social: Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel" Modern Essays on Eighteenth Century Literature. Ed. Leopold Damrosch Jr. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.

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

Salzman, Paul. English Prose Fiction 1558-1700. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.

Warner, William B. "The Elevation of the Novel In England: Hegemony and Literary History." English Literary History 59 (1992) 577-596.

- - -. Social Power and the Eighteenth Century Novel: Foucault and Transparent Literary History." Eighteenth Century Fiction 3 (1991) 185-203.

Watt, Ian. Rise of the Novel. London: Chatto and Windus, 1959.