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Narrative Innovation and Incoherence: Ideology in Defoe, Goldsmith, Austen, Eliot, and Hemingway (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Michael M. Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
Aspects of the Novel (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1927), by E. M. Forster (multiple formats at Google)
The English Novel, by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch of its History From the Earliest Times to the Appearance of Waverley (popular (5th) edition; London: J. Murray, 1907), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance (London: Constable and Co., 1921), by Edith Birkhead
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Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Henry Seidel Canby
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The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Dorothy Scarborough
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Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)
Le roman anglais : origine et formation des grandes écoles de romanciers du XVIIIe siècle. Leçon d'ouverture du cours de langues et de littérature d'origine germanique au Collège de France (E. Leroux, 1886), by J. J. Jusserand (page images at HathiTrust)
Scheherazade; or, The future of the English novel (E. P. Dutton & co., inc., 1928), by J. Y. T. Greig (page images at HathiTrust)
The advance of the English novel (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
The almosts; a study of the feeble-minded (Houghton Mifflin;, 1970), by Helen MacMurchy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
English fiction from the fifth to the twentieth century (Century Co., 1912), by Carl Holliday (page images at HathiTrust)
Jewish characters in fiction: English literature (The Jewish Chautauqua society, 1911), by Harry Levi (page images at HathiTrust)
Le roman social en Angleterre (1830-1850) Dickens--Disraeli--Mrs. Gaskell--Kingsley (Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition, 1904), by Louis François Cazamian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ancient Rome in the English novel; a study in English historical fiction ... (Philadelphia, 1923), by Randolph Faries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Studien zum englischen schauerroman. (H. John, 1915), by Gotthold Otto Hofmann (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English sea novel from Defoe to Conrad (Mimeographed and printed by Edwards brothers, 1926), by Ernest Carson Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
Woman's work in English fiction; from the restoration to the mid-Victorian period (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), by Clara Helen Whitmore (page images at HathiTrust)
The evolution of the English novel (The Macmillan company;, 1902), by Francis Hovey Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
Die jugendschilderung im englischen autobiographischen roman bis zu George Eliot ... ([Place of publication not identified], 1923), by Helene Schumacher (page images at HathiTrust)
An introduction to the study of English fiction (D.C. Heath & Co., 1894), by William Edward Simonds (page images at HathiTrust)
The evolution of the English novel (The Macmillan Company;, 1900), by Francis Hovey Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
Definitions; essays in contemporary criticism (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
British novelists and their styles : being a critical sketch of the history of British prose fiction (Macmillan and co., 1859), by David Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
The later realism : a study of characterization in the British novel (University of Chicago Press, 1927), by Walter Lawrence Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
The tales of terror / by Christabel Forsythe Fiske. (The Neale co., 1900), by Christabel Forsyth Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
Morality in English fiction. (W. & J. Arnold; [etc., etc., 1886), by James Ashcroft Noble (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel; being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (J. Murray, 1894), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of English prose fiction from Sir Thomas Malory to George Eliot (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1882), by Bayard Tuckerman (page images at HathiTrust)
The History of the novel in England (Houghton Mifflin company, 1932), by Robert Morss Lovett and Helen Sard Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the English novel (H.F. & G. Witherby, 1924), by Ernest A. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel (Macmillan, 1933), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
Great English novelists (G. Richards, 1908), by Holbrook Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel : being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley. (John Murray, 1929), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
Aspects of the novel (Harcourt, Brace & company, 1927), by E. M. Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
Aspects of the novel. (Harcourt, Brace, 1956), by E. M. Forster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The English novel (J.M. Dent ;, 1913), by George Saintsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
Cavalcade of the English novel (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1954), by Edward Wagenknecht (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel (Henry E. Huntington library and art gallery, 1934), by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and Hoyt Hopewell Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel (The Macmillan Company;, 1899), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel (The Macmillan company;, 1927), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel: a study in the development of personality (C. Scribner's sons, 1897), by Sidney Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
Englische romankunst. Die technik des englischen romans im achtzehnten und zu anfang des neunzehnten jahrhunderts ... (Mayer & Müller, g.m.b.h., 1922), by Wilhelm Dibelius (page images at HathiTrust)
The oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century (The Columbia university press, 1908), by Martha Pike Conant (page images at HathiTrust)
Architecture in English fiction. (Yale University Press, 1934), by Warren Hunting Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
The sailor in English fiction and drama, 1550-1800 (Columbia University Press, 1931), by Harold Francis Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
The tale of terror; a study of the Gothic romance. (Russell & Russell, 1963), by Edith Birkhead (page images at HathiTrust)
Masters of the English novel : a study of principles and personalities (H. Holt and Company, 1909), by Richard Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
The makers of English fiction (F. H. Revell company, 1905), by W. J. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The light reading of our ancestors: chapters in the growth of the English novel (Hutchinson & co., ltd., 1927), by Rowland E. Prothero (page images at HathiTrust)
Novels and novelists from Elizabeth to Victoria. (Hurst and Blackett, 1858), by John Cordy Jeaffreson (page images at HathiTrust)
A guide to British and American novels: being a comprehensive manual of all forms of popular fiction in Great Britain, Australasia, and America from its commencement down to 1894 (Digby, Long, 1895), by Percy Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Essays on fiction. (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864), by Nassau William Senior (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel, some notes on its evolution; the Rede lecture, 1925 (Folcroft Library Editions, 1970), by Hugh Walpole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A century of the English novel : being a consideration of the place in English literature of the long story ; together with an estimate of its writers from the heyday of Scott to the death of Conrad (The Century Co., 1925), by Cornelius Weygandt (page images at HathiTrust)
Two centuries of the English novel. (Smith, Elder, 1911), by Harold Herbert Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Some great English novels : studies in the art of fiction (Macmillan, 1926), by Orlo Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Four English humourists of the nineteenth century : lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in January and Februrary, 1895. (J. Murray, 1895), by William Samuel Lilly (page images at HathiTrust)
The novel in English (R. R. Smith, inc., 1931), by Grant C. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
The epistolary novel : its origin, development, decline, and residuary influence. (Russell & Russell, 1963), by Godfrey Frank Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of the novel from 1700 to the present time (The Macmillan company, 1933), by Pelham Edgar (page images at HathiTrust)
Hours in a library (Smith, Elder, & co., 1876), by Leslie Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
Le roman "terrifiant"; ou, Roman "noir" de Walpole à Anne Radeliffe et son influence sur la littérature française jusqu'en 1840. (G. Crès et cie, 1915), by Alice Mary Killen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Great English novelists (G.W. Jacobs & co., 1908), by Holbrook Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
Masters of the English novel; a study of principles and personalities (H. Holt and company, 1925), by Richard Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel (The Macmillan company;, 1911), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel (The Macmillan company;, 1942), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
The modern novel; a study of the purpose and the meaning of fiction (A. A. Knopf, 1918), by Wilson Follett (page images at HathiTrust)
Some studies in the modern novel. (Prospect Press, 1940), by Dorothy Mackenzie Hoare (page images at HathiTrust)
English women of letters: biographical sketches. (B. Tauchnitz, 1862), by Julia Kavanagh (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel: a study in the development of personality (C. Scribner's sons, 1903), by Sidney Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
The rise of the novel of manners ; a study of English prose fiction between 1600 and 1740 ... ([The Columbia university press], 1911), by Charlotte E. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel. (E. Benn, 1927), by J. B. Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel; being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (Scribner, 1909), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel; a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (J. Murray, 1922), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
Le roman terrifiant; ou, Roman noir de Walpole à Anne Radcliffe et son influence sur la littérature française jusqu'en 1840 (É. Champion, 1923), by Alice M. Killen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The English novel; a study in the development of personality (Scribner, 1914), by Sidney Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel; being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (J. Murray, 1896), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
Superlatives (A. A. Knopf, 1925), by Grant Cochran Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel, some notes on its evolution; the Rede lecture, 1925 (The University press, 1925), by Hugh Walpole (page images at HathiTrust)
The modern novel : a study of the purpose and the meaning of fiction (A. A. Knopf, 1923), by Wilson Follett (page images at HathiTrust)
Four years of novel reading: an account of an experiment in popularizing the study of fiction (D.C. Heath & Co., 1901), by Richard G. Moulton (page images at HathiTrust)
Scheherazade; or, The future of the English novel (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner;, 1927), by J. Y. T. Greig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The evolution of the English novel (The Macmillan company;, 1923), by Francis Hovey Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Hours in a library (Smith, Elder, & co., 1874), by Leslie Stephen and Benno Loewy (page images at HathiTrust)
The makers of English fiction. (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1905), by William James Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel (Oxford University Press, 1927), by Alan Chester Valentine (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel and the principle of its development (C. Scribner's Sons, 1883), by Sidney Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
Masters of the English novel; a study of principles and personalities (H. Holt and Company, 1932), by Richard Burton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Synopses of English fiction (Frederick A. Stokes, 1926), by Nora I. Sholto-Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel (The Macmillan company ;, 1937), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The evolution of the English novel. (Macmillan co., 1906), by Francis Hovey Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The English novel : a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (Murray, 1911), by Walter Alexander Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The advance of the English novel. (Dodd, Mead, 1922), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
Jane Austen und die Entwicklung des englischen bürgerlichen Romans im achtzehnten Jahrhundert. (Druck von R. Wagner Sohn, 1910), by Julius Frankenberger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Das subjecktive Hervortreten des Dichters im neueren englischen Roman (Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot) (Berngruber, 1915), by Elma Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
The makers of English fiction (Hodder and Stoughton, 1905), by William James Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of English prose fiction from Sir Thomas Malory to George Eliot (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1882), by Bayard Tuckerman (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel. (New York, 1917), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
Famous authors on their methods (Small, Maynard, 1921), by Meredith Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
Les romanciers anglais contemporains ... (Perrin et cie., 1900), by Yetta Blaze de Bury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Motives in English fiction. (G.P. Putnam, 1918), by Robert Naylor Whiteford (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel; being a short sketch from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverly. (Scribner, 1894), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
British novelists and their styles : being a critical sketch of the history of British prose fiction (D. Lothrop ;, 1875), by David Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel; being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (Scribner's Sons, 1901), by Walter Alexander Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
Papers read before the Novel club of Cleveland. (The Club, 1899), by Novel Club of Cleveland (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel: a study in the development of personality (C. Scribner's sons, 1900), by Sidney Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
Aspects of fiction (Field and Tuer [etc., etc.], 1885), by R. S. Decourcy Laffan (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel; a study in the development of personality (C. Scribner's sons, 1897), by Sidney Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel and the principle of its development (C. Scribner's sons, 1883), by Sidney Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
Hours in a library (Scribner, Armstrong, 1875), by Leslie Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
Four years of novel reading: an account of an experiment in popularizing the study of fiction (D.C. Heath & Co., 1909), by Richard G. Moulton (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel (Macmillan, 1900), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
The history, from 1800 to 1832, of English criticism of prose fiction (Urbana, Ill., 1931), by Byron Hall Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (Scribner, 1906), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
Essays in contemporary criticism (J. Cape, 1922), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The English novel (J.M. Dent & Sons ;, 1924), by George Saintsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
British novelists and their styles: being a critical sketch of the history of British prose fiction. (Gould and Lincoln;, 1859), by David Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel (AMS Press, 1976), by George Saintsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel : being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (Scribner, 1908), by Walter Alexander Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The English novel : being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverly (C. Scribner, 1911), by Walter Alexander Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
The advance of the English novel (Dodd, Mead and company, 1918), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
Woman's work in English fiction : from the restoration to the Mid-Victorian period (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980), by Clara Helen Whitmore (page images at HathiTrust)
The Jew in English fiction (Clarke, 1903), by David Philipson (page images at HathiTrust)
Le roman au temps de Shakespeare (C. Delagrave, 1887), by J. J. Jusserand (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel: being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (J. Murray, 1904), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
An introduction to the study of English fiction (D.C. Heath & Co., 1911), by William Edward Simonds (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel (The Macmillan company;, 1905), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
Hours in a library (Smith, Elder, & Co., 1877), by Leslie Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novelists ... (Adler's erben, 1874), by Heinrich Nicolaus Ehrenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
A guide to British and American novels : being a comprehensive manual of all forms of popular fiction in Great Britain, Australasia, and America from its commencement down to 1893 (Digby, Long, 1894), by Percy Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
An introduction to the study of English fiction (D.C. Heath & Co., 1898), by William Edward Simonds (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel (Macmillan, 1915), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel : being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (Scribner's Sons, 1899), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
Motives in English fiction (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918), by Robert Naylor Whiteford (page images at HathiTrust)
A course in contemporary English fiction (Columbia University, 1925), by Dorothy Brewster, Angus Burrell, and Columbia University (page images at HathiTrust)
The advance of the English novel (Dodd, Mead, 1917), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of English prose fiction from Sir Thomas Malory to George Eliot (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882), by Bayard Tuckerman (page images at HathiTrust)
The evolution of the English novel (The Macmillan Company;, 1909), by Francis Hovey Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel; its art value. ([St. Louis, 1876), by Grace C. Bibb (page images at HathiTrust)
The child in the pre-Victorian novel. (1919), by Catherine A. Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
The ethical tendency of the English novel. (1897), by Helen M. Harney (page images at HathiTrust)
Jewish characters in fiction: English literature. (The Jewish Chautauqua Society, 1903), by Harry Levi and Jewish Chautauqua Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Great English novelists. With thirty-two illus. (G. Richards, 1908), by Holbrook Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The advance of the English novel (Dodd, Mead, 1927), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
The tale of terror : a study of the Gothic romance (Dutton, 1920), by Edith Birkhead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An introduction to the study of English fiction (D. C. Heath & co., 1900), by William Edward Simonds (page images at HathiTrust)
The development of the English novel (Macmillan, 1930), by Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the English novel. (Barnes and Noble, 1924), by Ernest A. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
The English novel, a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (J. Murray, 1919), by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The English novel: being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley (J. Murray, 1896), by Walter Alexander Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
English sea novel ([Charlottesville, Va.], 1924), by Ernest Carson Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
Aspects of the novel, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg ebook)
The English Novel and the Principle of its Development, by Sidney Lanier (Gutenberg ebook)
A History of English Prose Fiction, by Bayard Tuckerman (Gutenberg ebook)
Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personalities, by Richard Burton (Gutenberg ebook)

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