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• Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism

• Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lisa Yaszek (PDF at Ohio State)

• Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Molly Youngkin (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Molly Hite (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

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

• Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by H. Porter Abbott (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF at parlormultimedia.com)
• The Reader as Peeping Tom: Nonreciprocal Gazing in Narrative Fiction and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jeremy Hawthorn (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Daniel Punday (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Novel According to Cervantes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stephen Gilman (HTML at UC Press)
• The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1916), by James Branch Cabell (Gutenberg text)
• The Responsibilities of the Novelist, and Other Literary Essays (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of its Criticism and a Guide for its Study, With an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages From 1700 to 1800 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941), by Philip Babcock Gove (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Progress of Romance; and The history of Charoba, Queen of Aegypt: Reproduced from the Colchester Edition of 1785, With a Bibliographical Note (New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1930), by Clara Reeve, contrib. by 1154 or 1155-1237 Murtaḍā ibn al-ʻAfīf and Esther Raushenbush (page images at HathiTrust)

• Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Martin Paul Eve (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Richard Walsh (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter M. Kendrick (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2012), by Tobias Boes
  • PDF and Epub at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1996), by Marc Redfield (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Empire Girls: The Colonial Heroine Comes of Age (c2014), by Mandy Treagus (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2012), by Laura Morgan Green (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction of Humanity: Studies in the Bildungsroman from Wieland to Thomas Mann, by Michael Beddow (HTML at mbeddow.net)

• Charakter und Technik der Detektivnovelle (dissertation in German; Heidelberg: C. Winters, 1914), by Friedrich Depken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Eric C. Otto (PDF at Ohio State)

• Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1982), by Janet Gurkin Altman (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2017), by Judith Fathallah (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Eric L. Berlatsky (PDF at Ohio State)
• Whose History? Engaging History Students Through Historical Fiction (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013), by Grant Rodwell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1983), by Harry E. Shaw (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Supernatural Horror in Literature, by H. P. Lovecraft (HTML at hplovecraft.com)

• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Daniel W. Lehman (PDF at Ohio State)
• Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1986), by Barbara Foley (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Literature of Roguery (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1907), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Tyrus Miller (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Romanticism and Affect Studies (2018), ed. by Seth Reno (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Prose of Romanticism (2017), ed. by Yoon Sun Lee (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and the Rights of the Negative (2017), ed. by Tilottama Rajan (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Minimal Romanticism (2016), ed. by David L. Clark and Jacques Khalip (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Multi-Media Romanticisms (2016), ed. by Andrew Burkett and James Brooke-Smith (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Systems (2016), ed. by Mark Canuel (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Materialities (2015), ed. by Sara Emilie Guyer and Celeste Langan (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• An Interview With Anne Mellor (2014), by Anne K. Mellor, ed. by Roxanne Eberle (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Antiquarianism (2014), ed. by Noah Heringman and Crystal B. Lake (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Stanley Cavell and the Event of Romanticism (2014), ed. by Eric Reid Lindstrom (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Tragedy, Translation and Theory: In Honor of Thomas J. McCall (2014), ed. by Cathy Caruth, contrib. by Tom McCall (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Visuality's Romantic Genealogies (2014), ed. by Theresa M. Kelley and Jill H. Casid (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Numbers (2013), by Maureen N. McLane (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Disaster (2012), ed. by Jacques Khalip and David Collings (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism, Forgery and the Credit Crunch (2012), ed. by Ian Haywood (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Fandom (2011), ed. by Eric Eisner (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Frictions (2011), ed. by Theresa M. Kelley (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Philosophy and Culture (2008), ed. by Rei Terada (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism (2008), ed. by Colin Jager (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• "Soundings of Things Done": The Poetry and Poetics of Sound in the Romantic Ear and Era (2008), by Susan J. Wolfson (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and Opera (2005), by Gillen D'Arcy Wood (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and the Insistence of the Aesthetic (2005), ed. by Forest Pyle (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• P.B. Shelley and the Delimitation of the Gothic (2015), ed. by David Brookshire (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Politics of Shelley: History, Theory, Form (2015), ed. by Matthew C. Borushko (illustrated HTML at romantic-circles.org)
• Robert Bloomfield: The Inestimable Blessing of Letters (2012), ed. by John Goodridge and Bridget Keegan (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Romanticism and the New Deleuze (2008), ed. by Ron Broglio (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Gothic Technologies: Visuality in the Romantic Era (2005), ed. by Robert Miles (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Utopianism and Joanna Baillie (2008), ed. by Regina Hewitt (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• John Thelwall: Critical Reassessments (2011), ed. by Yasmin Solomonescu (HTML at Romantic Circles)

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