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• The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (originally published 1995; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Lisa L. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social Protest in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Mona Scheuermann (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815; With a Catalogue of 1375 Magazine Novels and Novelettes (Evanston: Northwestern University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1962), by Robert D. Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the Novelists (14 lives in 2 volumes; Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, et al., 1825), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Epistolary Novel in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Descriptive and Bibliographical Study (Eugene: University of Oregon, 1940), by Frank Gees Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jewish Characters in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction and Drama (Groningen, Netherlands: J. B. Wolters, 1935), by Harm Reijnderd Sientjo van der Veen (page images at delpher.nl)
• The Gothic Romance (dissertation in German; Leipzig: Buchdruckerei Grimme und Trömel, 1902), by Hans Reinhard Möbius
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• The Rise of the Novel of Manners: A Study of English Prose Fiction Between 1600 and 1740 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1911), by Charlotte E. Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die englischen rosenkreuzerromane und ihre vorläufer. Eine studie über die entwicklung der phantastisch-romantischen erzählungsart in England während des 18. und 19. jahrhunderts ... (Gedruckt bei Lütcke & Wulff, 1911), by Hans Reinhard Möbius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The French Revolution and the English novel (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1915), by Allene Gregory Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das übersinnliche im englischen roman (Berngruber & Henning, 1915), by Wilhelm Adolf Paterna (page images at HathiTrust)
• The eighteenth-century novel in theory and practice ... (The Ruebuch-Kieffer company, 1923), by Charles Herbert Huffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The novels and novelists of the eighteenth century : in illustration of the manners and morals of the age (D. Appleton, 1871), by William Forsyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thespian mirror; Shakespeare in the eighteenth-century novel. (Brown University, 1953), by Robert Gale Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• America in English fiction, 1760-1800; the influences of the American Revolution (Louisana State University Press, 1937), by Robert Bechtold Heilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social elements in English prose fiction between 1700 and 1832. (H.J. Paris, 1929), by Coenraad Bart Anne Proper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gothic fiction in the American magazines (1765-1800) (The Catholic University of America Press, 1939), by Mary Mauritia Redden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The French Revolution and the English novel. (Putnam, 1915), by Allene Gregory Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The neglected muse; restoration and eighteenth-century tragedy in the novel (1740-1780) (Brown University Press, 1958), by Robert Gale Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamela's daughters (The Macmillan company, 1937), by Robert Palfrey Utter and Gwendolyn Bridges Needham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamela's daughters (The Macmillan Company, 1936), by Robert Palfrey Utter and Gwendolyn Bridges Needham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The novels and novelists of the eighteenth century : in illustration of the manners and morals of the age (J. Murray, 1871), by William Forsyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the novelists (H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906), by Walter Scott and Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The eighteenth-century novel in theory and practice ... (Ruebush-Kieffer, 1920), by Charles Herbert Huffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Northanger novels; a footnote to Jane Austen (The University press], 1927), by Michael Sadleir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erziehungsfragen in den Romanen von Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Goldsmith und Sterne ([s.n.], 1926), by Elisabeth Binz-Winiger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das "Ernsthafte" in dem englischen komischen Roman des XVIII. Jahrhunderts und seine Quellen. (Buchdruckerei M.E. Fischer, 1908), by Ernst Wicklein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Entwickelung des Seeromans in England im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert ([A. Schneider], 1901), by Arno Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the novelists (J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.;, 1910), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the novelists (H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The French Revolution and the English novel (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Allene Gregory Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le roman anglais; origine et formation des grandes écoles de romanciers du 18e siècle. Leçon d'ouverture du cours de langues et de littératures d'origine germanique au Collège de France (E. Leroux, 1886), by J. J. Jusserand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The novels and novelists of the eighteenth century : in illustration of the manners and morals of the age (J. Murray, 1871), by William Forsyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die entwicklung des seeromans in England im 17. und 18. jahrhundert. Inaugural-dissertation. (Leipzig, 1901), by Arno Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• The eighteenth century English novel in French translation (New York, 1936), by Harold Wade Streeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Catholic in the eighteenth century novel. (Catholic University of America Press, 1956), by Roger B. Dooley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of eminent novelists and dramatists (F. Warne ;, 1870), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women novelists, by R. Brimley Johnson (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by David H. Richter (PDF at Ohio State)
• Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010), by Tilottama Rajan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism (University of Virginia Press, 2019), by Aaron R. Hanlon (JSTOR ebook)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Beziehungen der philosophie zu dem grossen englischen roman des achtzehnten jahrhunderts ... (Hamburg, 1925), by Margreth Deinhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Verwendung der Mundart im englischen Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts (Fielding, Smollett). (Druck von K. F. Bender, 1915), by Heinz Lücker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelist's magazine. (Harrison, 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballantyne's novelist's library. ([London :, 1821), by 1660-1830 Collection of British and American Fiction (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gent. (G. Routledge, 1893), by Laurence Sterne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oliver Goldsmith's prose and poetical works (Charles Daly ..., 1850), by Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Daly, and Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The World (Printed for J. Parsons, 1794), by Edward Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joseph Andrews (G. Routledge and Sons, 1874), by Henry Fielding (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the adventures of Joseph Andrews (Dent ;, 1910), by Henry Fielding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and adventures of a cat, contrib. by Henry Fielding and William Guthrie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2, by Mrs. Bonhote (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale, by Samuel Johnson, William Beckford, and Horace Walpole, ed. by Ernest Rhys (Gutenberg ebook)
• Almoran and Hamet: An Oriental Tale, by John Hawkesworth (Gutenberg ebook)

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