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• Fiction -- History and criticism

• Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Tony Tanner (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Meegan Kennedy (PDF at Ohio State)
• Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Brian Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Drei Meister: Balzac, Dickens, Dostojewski (in German; 1922), by Stefan Zweig (Gutenberg text)

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

• Frank Reade Library, contrib. by Luis Senarens (partial serial archives)

• The Illustrated London News (1842-1901) and the Graphic (1869-1901): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #29; 2001), by Graham Law (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), by Katherine Bode (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Exploring the Interior: Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Karl Siegfried Guthke (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Aspects of Modern Drama (New York et al.: Macmillan, 1914), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Modern Drama in Europe (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Storm Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)

• After Innocence: Visions of the Fall in Modern Literature (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1982), by Terry Otten (page images at Pitt)
• Architecture and Modern Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2012), by David Spurr (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Kristin Kalsem (PDF at Ohio State)
• Inquiries and Opinions (1907), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Foreign Literature (London: Duckworth and Co., c1908), by Virginia M. Crawford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Americanisms and Briticisms, With Other Essays on Other Isms (New York: Harper and Bros., 1892), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)

• The Leader (full serial archives)

• The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Eileen Cleere (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)

• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Parody and Decadence: Laforgue's Moralités Légendaires (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Michele Hannoosh (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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 Murtada ibn al-'Afif 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)

• 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)

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