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• English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism

• Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1740-1790 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Betty A. Schellenberg
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c2016), ed. by Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway, contrib. by Ruth Mack, Jonathan Brody Kramnick, David Alvarez, Sara Landreth, Sarah Ellenzweig, Kate E. Tunstall, Joanna Stalnaker, and Vivasvan Soni
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the British Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2016), by Fiona L. Price
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Romantic Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Evan Gottlieb (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Imoinda's Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Lyndon Janson Dominique (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Erik Bond (PDF at Ohio State)
• Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), ed. by Katharine Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c2016), ed. by Christine Lehleiter
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Lucinda Cole
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• John Thelwall: Critical Reassessments (2011), ed. by Yasmin Solomonescu (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Acts of Implication: Suggestion and Covert Meaning in the Works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), by Irvin Ehrenpreis (HTML at UC Press)
• The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century; and Charity and Humour (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), by William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. by Edgar F. Harden, contrib. by James Hannay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Natural History of Sensibility (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1962), by Louis I. Bredvold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Julia H. Fawcett
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jasper Albert Cragwall (PDF at Ohio State)
• Romantic Psyche and Psychoanalysis (2008), ed. by Joel Faflak (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)
• Romanticism and Patriotism: Nation, Empire, Bodies, Rhetoric (2006), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, and Joel Pace (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century: Ford Lectures, 1903 (London: Duckworth and Co., 1904), by Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 (London: Percival and Co., 1890), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Tilottama Rajan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Age of Johnson (1748-1798) (London: George Bell and Sons, 1902), by Thomas Seccombe (page images at Google; US access only)
• The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century (Lovell's Library #313; New York: J. W. Lovell co., c1883), by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)
• The Influence of Gothic Literature on Sir Walter Scott (Rostock, Germany: H. Winterberg's Buchdruckerei, 1902), by Walter Freye (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (with Romanticism on the Net; 1996-) (full serial archives)
• The Universal Visiter (reprint edited by Eddy of this 1756 periodical; New York: Garland, 1979), ed. by Donald D. Eddy, contrib. by Christopher Smart, Richard Rolt, and Samuel Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)
• The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Tilottama Rajan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)
• The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1935), by Samuel Holt Monk (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gothic Drama From Walpole to Shelley (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1947), by Bertrand Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Drama of Sensibility: A Sketch of the History of English Sentimental Comedy and Domestic Tragedy, 1696-1780 (Harvard Studies in English v3; Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1915), by Ernest Bernbaum
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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 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
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)

• Latin American Afterlives (2020), ed. by Olivia Loksing Moy and Marco Ramírez Rojas (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (2003), ed. by Lisa Malinowski Steinman (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Sublime and Education (2010), ed. by J. Jennifer Jones (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), by Amy Christine Billone (PDF at Ohio State)
• Lives of the Poets (Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, Etc.), by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)
• Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (with additional links and information), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer (HTML at 18thcenturyarchive.org)

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