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• 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
• The Lion and the Cross: Early Christianity in Victorian Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Royal W. Rhodes (PDF at Ohio State)

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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 Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance (London: Constable and Co., 1921), by Edith Birkhead
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Henry Seidel Canby
  • multiple formats at archhive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism, by Henry Seidel Canby (Gutenberg text)
• The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Dorothy Scarborough
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by James Phelan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Simon Gikandi (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Lion and the Cross: Early Christianity in Victorian Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Royal W. Rhodes (PDF at Ohio State)

• Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (c2008), by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (HTML at Michigan)
• A Doctor Enjoys Sherlock Holmes (New York et al.: Vantage Press, c1959), by Edward J. Van Liere (page images at HathiTrust)

• George Eliot's Serial Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Carol A. Martin (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Ethics of George Eliot's Works (fourth edition; Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884), by John Crombie Brown (Gutenberg text)

• Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2005), by Lisa A. Surridge (PDF at ohioswallow.com)
• The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Margot Gayle Backus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa" (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1982), by Terry Castle
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• 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)

• 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)

• Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by Jerome Beaty (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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 Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance (London: Constable and Co., 1921), by Edith Birkhead
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Charles Robert Maturin: The Terror-Novelist (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1933), by Willem Scholten (page images at delpher.nl)
• Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920), by Clara Frances McIntyre (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Political Novel: Its Development in England and in America (New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1924), by Morris Edmund Speare (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake: A Structuralist Analysis (originally published 1976; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• George Moore and the Autogenous Self: The Autobiography and Fiction (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1994), by Elizabeth Grubgeld (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)
• The Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction (New York: New York University Press, 1994), by Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake: A Structuralist Analysis (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1976), by Margot Norris (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Margot Gayle Backus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Psychological Element in the English Sociological Novel of the Nineteenth Century (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1927), by Sijna de Vooys (page images at delpher.nl)

• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1962), by Howard S. Babb
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• The World of H. G. Wells (New York: M. Kennerley, 1915), by Van Wyck Brooks
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Short Story (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1916), by Barry Pain (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• This Africa: Novels by West Africans in English and French (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1965), by Judith Gleason (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Simon Gikandi (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• 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)

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