Nation & Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day

Nation & Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-512

  Parrinder, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cavalier; Daniel Defoe; English nation; English novel; Immigration novels; Medieval prose; National consciousness; National history; National identity; National mythology

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DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264858.001.0001     Document Type: Book

References (445)

1. Ernest A. Baker's ten-volume History of the English Novel(London, 1924-39)
2. Walter Allen's The English Novel (London, 1954).
3. Still worth consulting, though manifestly partial and polemical, are Ford Madox Ford's The English Novel from the Earliest Days to the Death of Joseph Conrad (London, 1930)
4. Ralph Fox's The Novel and the People (London, 1937)
5. Arnold Kettle's Introduction to the English Novel (2 vols., London, 1951).
6. V. S. Pritchett's fine essays on English and European novelists were collected in The Living Novel (London, 1946)
7. The Working Novelist (London, 1965).
8. Margaret Anne Doody's The True Story of the Novel (other London, 1997)
9. Peter Brooks's Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Cambridge, Mass., 1992).
10. Georg Lukács, The Historical Novel (London, 1962)
11. M. M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Austin, Tex., 1981).
12. The quotations from Shakespeare in this chapter are from The Complete Works, ed. Peter Alexander (London, 1951).
13. David Hume's 1748 essay 'Of National Character' is collected in his Political Essays, ed. Knud Haakanson (Cambridge, 1994).
14. John Stuart Mill's Considerations on Representative Government (1861)
15. Walter Bagehot's essay on national character, Physics and Politics (1872)remains comparatively little known; see, however
16. Bagehot's Collected Works, 15 vols. (London, 1965-86).
17. Anthony D. Smith's National Identity (London, 1991)
18. Edward W. Said contrasts 'filiation' and 'affiliation' in The World, the Text, and the Critic (London, 1984).
19. Perry Anderson foregrounds the concepts of national character and national identity in his review-article on 'Nation-States and National Identity', London Review of Books 13: 9 (9 May 1991), 3-8.
20. Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London, 1983).
21. Krishan Kumar's The Making of English National Identity (Cambridge, 2003).
22. Anthony Easthope's Englishness and National Culture (London, 1999)
23. Roger Scruton's England: An Elegy (London, 2000)
24. Paul Langford's Englishness Identified: Manners and Character 1650-1850 (Oxford, 2000)
25. Robert Colls's Identity of England (Oxford, 2002)
26. Peter Ackroyd's Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (London, 2002)
27. Daniel Defoe's The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings, ed. P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens (London, 1997)
28. Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Conor Cruise O'Brien (Harmondsworth, 1968)
29. Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution, with an introduction by R. H. S. Crossman (London, 1964)
30. J. B. Priestley, English Journey (London, 1934)
31. The English (London, 1973)
32. Peter Vansittart, In Memory of England (London, 1998).
33. Homi K. Bhabha, Nation and Narration (London, 1990)
34. Bhabha's The Location of Culture (London, 1994)
35. Pericles Lewis's Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel (Cambridge, 2000).
36. Fredric Jameson discusses the novel as 'national allegory' in his analysis
37. Wyndham Lewis's fiction, Fables of Aggression (Berkeley, 1979).
38. Leslie A. Fiedler, Love and Death in the American Novel (2nd edn., New York, 1966)
39. Richard Chase, The American Novel and its Tradition (New York, 1957)
40. Margaret Atwood, Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (Toronto, 1972).
41. Gerry Smyth's The Novel and the Nation: Studies in the New Irish Fiction (London and Chicago, 1997).
42. Paul Gilbert reflects on 'The Idea of a National Literature' in John Horton and Andrea T. Baumeister, eds., Literature and the Political Imagination (London, 1996).
43. Nikolaus Pevsner's The Englishness of English Art(London, 1956)
44. John Lucas's England and Englishness (London, 1990)
45. David Gervais's Literary Englands (Cambridge, 1993).
46. Raymond Williams's The Country and the City (London, 1973).
47. Q. D. Leavis, however, is virtually alone along important twentieth-century critics in discussing 'The Englishness of the English Novel', English Studies 62: 2 (1981), 128-45.
48. William Hazlitt's course of Lectures on the English Comic Writers(1819)
49. 'Standard Novels and Romances', in Complete Works, ed. P. P. Howe (London, 1933), xvi. 5-24.
50. Walter Scott's prefaces to Ballantyne's Novelist's Library (1821) were collected as
51. Lives of the Novelists (London, 1910).
52. Claudio Guillén's 'Toward a Definition of the Picaresque' in Literature as System (Princeton, 1971), 71-106
53. Walter L. Reed's An Exemplary History of the Novel: The Quixotic versus the Picaresque (Chicago, 1981)
54. Franco oretti's essay on the Bildungsroman, The Way of the World (London, 1987).
55. Nancy Armstrong's Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (New York, 1987)
56. Joseph Allen Boone's Tradition Counter Tradition (Chicago, 1987)
57. Ruth Bernard Yeazell's Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel (Chicago, 1991).
58. Lionel Trilling's reflections on the 'young man from the provinces' are found in his essay on
59. Henry James's The Princess Casamassima in The Liberal Imagination (London, 1951).
60. Martin Green contrasts domestic fiction with the imperial adventure novel in his brilliant and provocative study Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire (London, 1980).
61. William A. Ringler, Jr., and Michael Flachmann's edition of Beware theCat: The First English Novel (San Marino, Calif., 1988), 75-90.
62. The standard edition of The Works of Sir Thomas Malory is edited by Eugene Vinaver (3 vols., Oxford, 1947).
63. Stephen Knight's Arthurian Literature and Society (London, 1983)
64. Paul Salzman, author of English Prose Fiction 1558-1700: A Critical History (Oxford, 1985)
65. and editor of Two World's Classics anthologies, Elizabethan Prose Fiction (Oxford, 1987)
66. Seventeenth-Century Fiction (Oxford, 1991).
67. Josephine Donovan's Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 (New York, 2000).
68. Katherine Duncan-Jones's edition of Sidney's Arcadia (Oxford, 1994)
69. David Margolies's Novel and Society in Elizabethan England (London, 1985)
70. Robert Mayer's History and the Early English Novel (Cambridge, 1987)
71. Gamini Salgado's Anthology of Elizabethan low life, Cony-Catchers and Bawdy Baskets (Harmondsworth, 1972).
72. The Counterfeit Lady Unveiled (Garden City, New York, 1961).
73. Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works (London, 1992)
74. while the Virago reprint of Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (London, 1987)
75. Maureen Duffy. S. J. Wiseman's Aphra Behn (Plymouth, 1996)
76. Grace Abounding (Oxford, 1962)
77. The Pilgrim's Progress (Harmondsworth, 1965)
78. James F. Forrest, of The Holy War (Oxford, 1980)
79. The Life and Death of Mr Badman (Oxford, 1988).
80. A. A. Parker discusses Bunyan, Defoe, and Fielding in relation to the Spanish picaresque in Literature and the Delinquent (Edinburgh, 1977)
81. Leopold Damrosch, Jr., considers Bunyan's place in the fictional tradition in God's Plot and Man's Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding (Chicago, 1985).
82. Linda Colley's Britons: Forging the Nation 1701-1837 (New Haven, 1992)
83. H. T. Dickinson's The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Basingstoke, 1995)
84. Gerald Newman's The Rise of English Nationalism (London, 1987).
85. Raphael Samuel is editor of an important collection of essays, Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity (3 vols., London, 1989).
86. Laird Okie surveys eighteenth-century histories of England in Augustan Historical Writing (Lanham, Md., 1991)
87. R. C. Richardson has summarized The Debate on the English Revolution (London, 1977).
88. Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, The Rise of the Novel(London, 1957).
89. Michael McKeon's The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740(London, 1988)
90. Lennard J. Davis's Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel (New York, 1983)
91. Marthe Robert's Origins of the Novel (Brighton, 1980)
92. Jane Spencer's The Rise of the Woman Novelist (Oxford, 1986).
93. Geoffrey Day, From Fiction to the Novel (London, 1987)
94. J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels (New York, 1990)
95. John J. Richetti, Popular Fiction Before Richardson (Oxford, 1969).
96. Deirdre Lynch and William B. Warner, eds., Cultural Institutions of the Novel (Durham, NC, 1996)
97. Clifford Siskin, The Work of Writing (Baltimore, 1998)
98. Diana Spearman, The Novel and Society (London, 1966).
99. The English Novel, ed. Richard Kroll (2 vols., London, 1998)
100. The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. John Richetti (Cambridge, 1996).
101. The journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction is indispensable reading if one wishes to keep up with recent scholarship on the novel in the 'long eighteenth century' (that is, including Austen and Scott). Among more general literary histories
102. John Barrell's English Literature in History 1730-80(London, 1983)
103. Laura Brown's English Dramatic Form, 1660-1760 (New Haven, 1981)
104. Martin C. Battestin, The Providence of Wit (Oxford, 1974)
105. Terry Castle, Masquerade and Civilization (London, 1986)
106. Paul J. Korshin, Typologies in England 1650-1820 (Princeton, 1982)
107. Ronald J. Paulson, Satire and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven, 1967)
108. Patricia Meyer Spacks's Imagining a Self (Cambridge, Mass., 1976).
109. Jonathan Lamb surveys eighteenth-century readings of the Book of Job in The Rhetoric of Suffering (Oxford, 1995).
110. C. B. Macpherson's edition of Hobbes's Leviathan (Harmondsworth, 1968)
111. Locke's Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (revised edn., New York, 1965)
112. Shaftesbury's Characteristics, ed. John M. Robertson (Indianapolis, 1964).
113. Gordon J. Schochet discusses versions of the 'authoritarian family' in Patriarchalism in Political Thought (Oxford, 1975).
114. Carol Kay's Political Constructions (Ithaca, NY, 1988)
115. Everett Zimmerman's The Boundaries of Fiction (Ithaca, NY, 1996)
116. Richard Braverman's Plots and Counterplots (Cambridge, 1993)
117. 'Sexual politics and the body politic' in the literature of the period 1660-1830. Other studies of literature in relation to politics are Miranda J. Burgess, British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830 (Cambridge, 2000)
118. W. Austin Flanders, Structures of Experience (Columbia, SC, 1984)
119. Christine Gerrard, The Patriot Opposition to Walpole (Oxford, 1994)
120. Howard D. Weinbrot, Britannia's Issue (Cambridge, 1993).
121. Douglas Hay and others, Albion's Fatal Tree (London, 1975)
122. Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged (London, 1991).
123. Lincoln B. Faller discusses the criminal biographies in Turned to Account (London, 1987)
124. Ian A. Bell's Literature and Crime in Augustan England (London, 1991)
125. Bertrand H. Bronson published a biography of Joseph Ritson (2 vols., Berkeley, 1938)
126. Graham Seal relates the English highwayman to American and Australian outlaws in The Outlaw Legend (Cambridge, 1996).
127. E. J. Hobsbawm's Bandits (London, 1958).
128. Modern editions of Defoe include A Journal of the Plague Year, ed. Anthony Burgess and Christopher Bristow (Harmondsworth, 1966)
129. Memoirs of a Cavalier, ed. James T. Boulton (London, 1972)
130. Moll Flanders, ed. G. A. Starr(Oxford, 1981)
131. Robinson Crusoe, ed. Michael Shinagel (2nd edn., New York, 1994)
132. Roxana, ed. Jane Jack (Oxford, 1981)
133. A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, ed. Pat Rogers (Harmondsworth, 1971).
134. Rogers has also edited Daniel Defoe: The Critical Heritage (London, 1972)
135. David Fausett gives an excellent account of The Strange Surprizing Sources of Robinson Crusoe (Amsterdam, 1994).
136. Lincoln B. Faller, Crime and Defoe (Cambridge, 1993)
137. Maximillian E. Novak, Realism, Myth, and History in Defoe's Fiction (Lincoln, Nebr., 1983)
138. Manuel Schonhorn, Defoe's Politics (Cambridge, 1991)
139. Lieve Spaas and Brian Stimpson, eds., Robinson Crusoe: Myths and Metamorphoses (Basingstoke, 1996)
140. David Trotter, Circulation: Defoe, Dickens, and the Economies of the Novel (Basingstoke, 1988).
141. Fielding's Amelia has been edited by Martin C. Battestin (Oxford, 1983)
142. An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, ed. Malvin R. Zirker (Oxford, 1988)
143. Joseph Andrews and Shamela, ed. Arthur Humphreys (revised edn., London, 1993)
144. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, ed. Tom Keymer (London, 1996)
145. Tom Jones, ed. R. P. C. Mutter (Harmondsworth, 1966)
146. The True Patriot and Related Writings, ed. W. B. Coley (Oxford, 1987).
147. Homer Obed Brown, 'Tom Jones: The "Bastard" of History', Boundary 2, 7: 2 (1979), 201-33
148. Brian McCrea's Henry Fielding and the Politics of Mid-Eighteenth-Century England (Athens, G., 1981).
149. Tom Jones is reviewed in Peter J. Carlton
150. 'Tom Jones and the '45 Once Again', Studies in the Novel 20: 4 (1988), 361-73.
151. Martin C. Battestin with Ruthe R. Battestin, Henry Fielding: A Life (London, 1989).
152. Robert Alter's Fielding and the Nature of the Novel (Cambridge, Mass., 1968)
153. Jill Campbell's Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels (Stanford, 1995).
154. Recent editions of Richardson include Clarissa, ed. Angus Ross (Harmondsworth, 1985)
155. The History of Sir Charles Grandison, ed. Jocelyn Harris (3 vols., London, 1972)
156. Pamela, ed. Peter Sabor (Harmondsworth, 1980)
157. Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely (Oxford, 2001)
158. Selected Letters, ed. John Carroll (Oxford, 1964).
159. Samuel Richardson: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ,1969)
160. Samuel Richardson: Tercentenary Essays, ed. Margaret Anne Doody and Peter Sabor (Cambridge, 1989).
161. Ewha Chung, Samuel Richardson's New Nation (New York, 1998)
162. Jocelyn Harris, Samuel Richardson (Cambridge, 1987)
163. Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Samuel Richardson and the Eighteenth-Century Puritan Character (Hamden, Conn., 1972).
164. Christopher Hill's essay 'Clarissa Harlowe and her Times' in Puritanism and Revolution (London, 1958).
165. Lois E. Bueler, Clarissa's Plots (Newark, Del., 1994)
166. Terry Eagleton, The Rape of Clarissa (Oxford, 1982)
167. Tom Keymer, Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (Cambridge, 1992).
168. Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is edited by Louis M. Knapp and Paul-Gabriel Boucé (Oxford, 1984).
169. Smollett criticism has been collected in Tobias Smollett: The Critical Heritage, ed. Lionel Kelly (London, 1987)
170. Tobias Smollett: Bicentennial Essays, ed. G. S. Rousseau and P.-G. Boucé (New York, 1971).
171. Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele and Eustace Budgell, Sir Roger de Coverly, ed. John Hampden (London, 1967)
172. John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull, ed. Alan W. Bower and Robert A. Erickson (Oxford, 1976)
173. Fanny Burney, Evelina, ed. Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom (Oxford, 1982)
174. Sarah Fielding, The Adventures of David Simple, ed. Malcolm Kelsall (Oxford, 1994)
175. William Godwin, Things As They Are or the Adventures of Caleb Williams,ed. Maurice Hindle (London, 1988)
176. Oliver Goldsmith, Collected Works, ed. Arthur Friedman (Oxford, 1966)
177. Eliza Haywood, Three Novellas, ed. Earla A. Wilputte (East Lansing, Mich., 1995)
178. Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling, ed. Brian Vickers (London, 1970)
179. Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House, ed. Anne Henry Ehrenpreis (London, 1969)
180. Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, ed. Graham Petrie (Harmondsworth, 1967)
181. Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, ed. W. S. Lewis (Oxford, 1964)
182. Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, ed. Gary Kelly (London, 1976).
183. Kelly is the author of The English Jacobin Novel 1780-1805 (Oxford, 1976)
184. Pamela Clemit, The Godwinian Novel (Oxford, 1993)
185. Loraine Fletcher, 'Four Jacobin Women Novelists' in John Lucas, ed., Writing and Radicalism (London, 1996), 102-27.
186. Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, ed. Peter Faulkner (London, 1970)
187. Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, ed. J. M. S. Tompkins (London, 1967)
188. Clara Reeve, The Old English Baron, ed. James Trainer (London, 1967)
189. Charlotte Smith, Desmond, ed. Antje Blank and Janet Todd (Peterborough, Ont., 2001)
190. Emmeline, ed. Anne Henry Ehrenpreis (London, 1971).
191. Loraine Fletcher, Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography (Basingstoke, 1998).
192. Frances Burney, The Wanderer, ed. Margaret Anne Doody, Robert L. Mack, and Peter Sabor (Oxford, 1991)
193. Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent and Ennui, ed. Marilyn Butler (London, 1992)
194. Susan Ferrier, Marriage, ed. Herbert Feltinek (London, 1971).
195. Igor Webb, From Custom to Capital (Ithaca, NY, 1981)
196. Katie Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism (Princeton, 1997)
197. Austen, Scott, and Gothic fictionin The Civilized Imagination (Cambridge, 1985)
198. Cannon Schmitt's Alien Nation (Philadelphia, 1997)
199. Ian Duncan's Modern Romance and the Transformations of the Novel(Cambridge, 1992)
200. Fiona Robertson's Legitimate Histories (Oxford, 1994).
201. David Kaufmann's The Business of Common Life (Baltimore, 1995)
202. Avrom Fleishman, The English Historical Novel (Baltimore, 1971)
203. Andrew Sanders, The Victorian Historical Novel 1840-1880 (London, 1978).
204. P. D. Edwards, Idyllic Realism from Mary Russell Mitford to Hardy (Basingstoke, 1988)
205. Elizabeth K. Helsinger, Rural Scenes and National Representation (Princeton, 1997).
206. Washington Irving is one of the subjects of Malcolm Bradbury's account of Anglo-American literary relations, Dangerous Pilgrimages (London, 1995).
207. Among the innumerable editions of Scott, I am indebted to The Heart of Mid-Lothian, ed. Tony Inglis (London, 1994)
208. Ivanhoe, ed. Graham Tulloch (Edinburgh, 1998)
209. Kenilworth, ed. J. H. Alexander (London, 1999)
210. On Novelists and Fiction, ed. Ioan Williams (London, 1968)
211. Rob Roy, ed. John Sutherland (London, 1995).
212. Scott's 1830 'Introduction' to Ivanhoe, omitted from Tulloch's edition, is found in many other reprints of the novel. Critical responses to Scott's work are collected in
213. John O. Hayden, ed., Scott: The Critical Heritage (London, 1970)
214. D. D. Devlin, ed., Walter Scott: Modern Judgement(Nashville, 1970).
215. Alexander Welsh's The Hero of the Waverley Novels (New Haven, 1963)
216. Cairns Craig's Out of History (Edinburgh, 1996)
217. James Kerr's Fiction against History: Scott as Storyteller (Cambridge, 1989)
218. Graham McMaster's Scott and Society (Cambridge, 1981).
219. Graham McMaster's Scott and Society (Cambridge, 1981).
220. Editions of Jane Austen include Catharine and Other Writings, ed. Margaret Anne Doody and Douglas Murray (Oxford, 1998)
221. Emma, ed. Ronald Blythe (Harmondsworth, 1966)
222. Mansfield Park, ed. Tony Tanner (Harmondsworth, 1966)
223. Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, ed. John Davis (Oxford, 1990)
224. Sense and Sensibility, ed. Tony Tanner (Harmondsworth, 1969).
225. Among collections of critical essays are Jane Austen, ed. Ian Watt (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1963)
226. Donald J. Greene's important essay on 'Jane Austen and the Peerage'
227. Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays, ed. John Halperin (Cambridge, 1975)
228. Jane Austen in a Social Context, ed. David Monaghan (Basingstoke, 1981).
229. Robert Miles's Jane Austen (Tavistock, 2003).
230. Marilyn Butler, Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (Oxford, 1975)
231. Claudia L. Johnson, Jane Austen: Women, Politics and the Novel (Chicago, 1988)
232. Edward Neill, The Politics of Jane Austen (Basingstoke, 1999).
233. Edward W. Said discusses slavery in Mansfield Park in his Culture and Imperialism (London, 1993).
234. Frank W. Bradbrook, Jane Austen and Her Predecessors (Cambridge, 1966)
235. Jocelyn Harris, Jane Austen's Art of Memory (Cambridge, 1989)
236. Margaret Kirkham, Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction (Sussex, 1983).
237. Shinobu Minma, 'Self-Deception and Superiority Complex: Derangement of Hierarchy in Jane Austen's Emma', Eighteenth-Century Fiction14: 1 (2001), 49-65.
238. Thomas Carlyle's Selected Writings are edited by Alan Shelston (Harmondsworth, 1971)
239. Bulwer-Lytton's England and the English has been edited by Standish Meacham (Chicago, 1970)
240. J. W. Burrow's A Liberal Descent (Cambridge, 1981)
241. Martin J. Wiener's English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit (Cambridge, 1981)
242. Herbert F. Tucker, ed., A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture (Oxford, 1999).
243. Like his earlier The Way of the World, Franco Moretti's
244. Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (London, 1998)
245. Kathleen Tillotson, Novels of the Eighteen-Forties (Oxford, 1954)
246. John Lucas, ed., Literature and Politics in the Nineteeth Century (London, 1971).
247. Rosemarie Bodenheimer, The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction (Ithaca, NY, 1988)
248. Catherine Gallagher, The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction (Chicago, 1985)
249. Patricia Ingham's The Language of Gender and Class (London, 1996)
250. Mary Poovey's Uneven Developments (London, 1989)
251. Ruth Bernard Yeazell's 'Why Political Novels Have Heroines', Novel 18: 2 (1985), 126-44.
252. 'Jewish question' in Disraeli and others, Figures of Conversion (Durham, NC, 1995)
253. Julian Wolfreys' Being English (Albany, NY, 1994).
254. The novel's relation to empire is at the forefront ofPatrick Brantlinger's Rule of Darkness (Ithaca, NY, 1988)
255. Jonathan Arac and Harriet Ritvo, eds., Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature (Durham, NC, 1995)
256. Daniel Bivona, Desire and Contradiction: Imperial Visions and Domestic Debates in Victorian Literature (Manchester, 1990)
257. Terry Eagleton's essays on Irish culture, Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (London, 1995)
258. Susan Meyer, Imperialism at Home (Ithaca, NY, 1996)
259. Jenny Sharpe's study of 'Women in the colonial text', Allegories of Empire (Minneapolis, 1993).
260. Joss Marsh's Word Crimes (Chicago, 1998)
261. Peter K. Garrett, The Victorian Multiplot Novel (New Haven, 1980)
262. John R. Reed, Victorian Conventions (Athens, Ohio, 1975).
263. Peter Keating's The Haunted Study (London, 1989)
264. Keating's earlier study of The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction (London, 1971)
265. Sally Ledger's The New Woman (Manchester, 1997).
266. Daniel Born's The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel (Chapel Hill, NC, 1995)
267. Dickens to Wells. Recent editions of Dickens's novels that I have consulted include Bleak House, ed. Norman Page (London, 1985)
268. Nicola Bradbury(London, 1996)
269. Martin Chuzzlewit, ed. P. N. Furbank (London, 1986)
270. Patricia Ingham (London, 1999)
271. Oliver Twist, ed. Peter Fairclough (London, 1985)
272. Our Mutual Friend, ed. Adrian Poole (London, 1997)
273. A Tale of Two Cities, ed. Richard Maxwell (London, 2000).
274. James Buzard, '"Anywhere's Nowhere": Bleak House as Autoethnography', Yale Journal of Criticism 12: 1 (1999), 7-39
275. J. Hillis Miller, Charles Dickens: The World of his Novels (Cambridge, Mass., 1958)
276. John Kucich, Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Athens, Ga., 1981)
277. John Lucas, Charles Dickens: The Major Novels (London, 1972)
278. Richard Maxwell, The Mysteries of Paris and London (Charlottesville, Va., 1992)
279. William J. Palmer, Dickens and New Historicism(Basingstoke, 1997)
280. Anny Sadrin, Parentage and Inheritance in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Cambridge, 1994)
281. Alexander Welsh, The City of Dickens (Oxford, 1971)
282. From Copyright to Copperfield (Cambridge, Mass., 1987).
283. Disraeli's Sybil is edited by Thom Braun (Harmondsworth, 1980).
284. Robert Blake's Disraeli (London, 1966)
285. Charles Richmond and Paul Smith, eds., The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli 1818-1851 (Cambridge, 1998).
286. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has been edited by Q. D. Leavis (Harmondsworth, 1966).
287. Other modern Brontë editions are Villette, ed. Mark Lilly (Harmondsworth, 1979)
288. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, ed. Ian Jack (Oxford, 1995)
289. Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ed. G. D. Hargreaves (Harmondsworth, 1979).
290. Christine Alexander has edited two volumes of Charlotte Brontë's Early Writings (Oxford, 1987, 1991).
291. Barbara Timm Gates, ed., Critical Essays on Charlotte Brontë (Boston, 1990)
292. Enid L. Duthie, The Foreign Vision of Charlotte Brontë (London, 1975).
293. Terry Eagleton's Myths of Power (2nd edn., Basingstoke, 1988)
294. Bodenheimer, Meyer, Sharpe, and others listed above. Editions of Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction include Cousin Phillis and Other Tales, ed. Angus Easson (Oxford, 1981)
295. My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories, ed. Edgar Wright (Oxford, 1989)
296. North and South, ed. Dorothy Collin (London, 1986)
297. Sylvia's Lovers, ed. Andrew Sanders (Oxford, 1982)
298. Wives and Daughters, ed. Frank Gloversmith (Harmondsworth, 1969).
299. Deirdre ďAlbertis, Dissembling Fictions (New York, 1997)
300. Coral Lansbury, Elizabeth Gaskell: the Novel of Social Crisis (London, 1975).
301. Editions of Anthony Trollope include An Autobiography, ed. Michael Sadleir and Frederick Page (Oxford, 1992)
302. Doctor Thorne, ed. David Skilton (Oxford,1980)
303. The Warden, ed. Robin Gilmour (London, 1986)
304. The Way We Live Now, ed. Sir Frank Kermode (London, 1994).
305. George Eliot's Adam Bede has been edited by Valentine Cunningham (Oxford, 1996)
306. Daniel Deronda, ed. Barbara Hardy (Harmondsworth, 1967)
307. Felix Holt the Radical, ed. Fred C. Thomson (Oxford, 1988)
308. Middlemarch, ed. David Carroll (Oxford, 1998)
309. The Mill on the Floss, ed. Gordon S. Haight (Oxford, 1980)
310. Scenes of Clerical Life, ed. Thomas A. Noble (Oxford, 1988).
311. A Century of George Eliot Criticism (London, 1966)
312. Barbara Hardy is the editor of Critical Essays on George Eliot (London, 1970).
313. Nancy Henry, George Eliot and the British Empire(Cambridge, 2002)
314. Neil NcCaw,George Eliot and Victorian Historiography (Basingstoke, 2000)
315. Bernard Semmel, George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance (New York, 1994)
316. Sally Shuttleworth, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science (Cambridge, 1986).
317. The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, ed. Andrew Sanders (Oxford, 1984)
318. Vanity Fair, ed. John Sutherland (Oxford, 1983).
319. Geoffrey Tillotson and Donald Hawes edited Thackeray: The Critical Heritage (London, 1968)
320. John Carey's Thackeray: Prodigal Genius (London, 1977)
321. Henry James most relevant to the present book are The Princess Casamassima, ed. Derek Brewer (London,1987)
322. Selected Literary Criticism, ed. Morris Shapira (London, 1963).
323. Clara Hopgood by 'Mark Rutherford' is edited by Lorraine Davies (London, 1996)
324. Arthur Morrison's A Child of the Jago is edited by P. J. Keating (London, 1969).
325. Pierre Coustillas and Colin Partridge edited Gissing: The Critical Heritage (London, 1972).
326. Coustillas has also edited Collected Articles on George Gissing (London, 1968).
327. Raymond Williams discusses Gissing's 'Negative identification' in Culture and Society 1780-1950 (London, 1958)
328. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious (London, 1981).
329. Modern editions of Thomas Hardy's novels include Jude the Obscure, ed. P. N. Furbank (London, 1974)
330. A Pair of Blue Eyes, ed. Alan Monford (Oxford, 1985)
331. The Return of the Native, ed. Derwent May (London, 1974)
332. The Woodlanders, ed. David Lodge (London, 1974).
333. J. R. Seeley, The Expansion of England (2nd edn., London, 1897)
334. J. A. Hobson, Imperialism (3rd edn., London, 1938)
335. C. R. L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling, A School History of England (Oxford, 1911)
336. G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England (London, 1917)
337. G. M. Trevelyan, History of England (London, 1926)
338. 'Whig interpretation',H. Butterfield, The Englishman and his History (Cambridge, 1944).
339. Judy Giles and Tim Middleton, eds., Writing Englishness 1900-1950 (London, 1995)
340. David Craig, The Real Foundations: Literature and Social Change (London, 1973)
341. Jed Esty, A Shrinking Island (Princeton, 2004)
342. Martin Green, The English Novel in the Twentieth Century [The Doom of Empire] (London, 1984)
343. Jefferson Hunter, Edwardian Fiction (Cambridge, Mass., 1982)
344. Karen R. Lawrence, ed., Decolonizing Tradition (Urbana, Ill., 1992)
345. David Trotter, The English Novel in History 1895-1920 (London, 1993).
346. Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls, eds., The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (Cambridge, 2004).
347. Elaine Showalter discusses turn-of-the-century romances in Sexual Anarchy (London, 1991).
348. Christopher Harvie's The Centre of Things (London, 1991)
349. Thomas Richards, The Imperial Archive (London, 1993)
350. 'English gentleman' includeRichard Gill, Happy Rural Seat (New Haven, 1972)
351. Mark Girouard, The Return to Camelot (New Haven, 1981)
352. Len Platt, Aristocracies of Fiction (Westport, Conn., 2001).
353. Stephanie L. Barczewski, Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford, 2000).
354. Ford Madox Ford's novel-sequences have been collected as The Fifth Queen (Oxford, 1984)
355. Parade's End (London, 1992).
356. Max Saunders as Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life (2 vols., Oxford, 1996).
357. Saunders and Richard Stang have edited Ford's Critical Essays (Manchester, 2002).
358. Robert Green, Ford Madox Ford: Prose and Politcs(Cambridge, 1981)
359. H. Robert Huntley, The Alien Protagonist of Ford Madox Ford (Chapel Hill, NC, 1970)
360. Parade's End, Andrzej Gasiorek, 'The Politics of Cultural Nostalgia' 11: 2 (2002), 52-77
361. Literature and History 3rd series, 11: 2 (2002), 52-77.
362. Agenda 27: 4-28: 1 (1989-90)
363. David Trotter on 'Hueffer's Englishness' (148-55).
364. Among E. M. Forster's works, Abinger Harvest and England's Pleasant Land have been edited by Elizabeth Heine (London, 1996)
365. Where Angels Fear to Tread by Oliver Stallybrass (London, 2001).
366. A classic critical study is Lionel Trilling's E. M. Forster (2nd edn, London, 1967)
367. P. N. Furbank (2 vols., London, 1977).
368. Mohammad Shaheen, E. M. Forster and the Politics of Imperialism (London, 2004).
369. John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga is edited by Geoffrey Harvey (Oxford, 1995).
370. Rudyard Kipling's Kim has been edited by Edward W. Said (London, 1987)
371. Sullivan's Narratives of Empire (Cambridge, 1993)
372. Parama Roy's Indian Traffic (Berkeley, 1998).
373. Andrew Rutherford, ed., Kipling's Mind and Art (Edinburgh, 1964).
374. D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love is edited by Charles L. Ross (Harmondsworth, 1986)
375. David Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, and John Worthen (Cambridge, 1987)
376. A Selection from Phoenix is edited by A. A. H. Inglis (Harmondsworth, 1971).
377. Colin Clarke, River of Dissolution (London, 1967)
378. Scott Sanders, D. H. Lawrence: The World of the Major Novels (London, 1973).
379. George Orwell's Complete Works have been edited by Peter Davison (20 vols., London, 1998).
380. Orwell's England (London, 2001)
381. but Orwell's Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (4 vols., London, 1968)
382. Bernard Crick's George Orwell (London, 1980).
383. Christopher Hitchens, Orwell's Victory (London, 2002)
384. Alex Zwerdling, Orwell and the Left (New Haven, 1974).
385. H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay has been edited by Bryan Cheyette (New York, 1997)
386. Patrick Parrinder (London, 2005).
387. Michael Draper's H. G. Wells (Basingstoke, 1987).
388. Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts has been edited by Frank Kermode (Oxford, 1992)
389. Gillian Beer and Stella McNichol (London, 1992)
390. Jacob's Room, ed. Sue Roe (London, 1992)
391. The Voyage Out, ed. Lorna Sage (Oxford, 1992)
392. The Years, ed. Hermione Lee (Oxford, 1992).
393. Selections of Woolf's essays include Women and Writing, ed. Michèle Barrett (London, 1979)
394. The Common Reader, Vol. ii, ed. Andrew McNeillie (London, 2003).
395. 'Anon' and 'The Reader' have been edited byBrenda R. Silver in Twentieth-Century Literature 25: 3-4 (1979), 356-441.
396. Woolf's Diary, ed. Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (5 vols., London, 1984).
397. Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (London, 1966).
398. Margaret Homans, ed., Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993)
399. Robin Majumdar and Allen McLaurin, eds., Virginia Woolf: The Critical Heritage (London, 1975)
400. Gillian Beer, 'Virginia Woolf and Prehistory' in Arguing with the Past (London, 1989)
401. Rachel Bowlby, Virginia Woolf: Feminist Destinations (Oxford, 1988).
402. Tom Nairn, The Break-Up of Britain (2nd edn., London, 1981)
403. Patrick Wright's study of the 'National past' in contemporary Britain, On Living in an Old Country (London, 1985)
404. Declan Kiberd, 'Reinventing England', Key Words 2 (1999), 47-57
405. Norman Davies, The Isles (London, 1999).
406. Steven Connor, The English Novel in History 1950-1985 (London, 1996)
407. Andrzej Gasiorek, Post-War British Fiction (London, 1995)
408. Dominic Head, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 (Cambridge, 2002)
409. Richard J. Lane, Rod Mengham and Philip Tew, eds., Contemporary British Fiction (London, 2003)
410. Zachary Leader, ed., On Modern British Fiction (Oxford, 2002)
411. Alan Sinfield, Literature, Politics and Culture in Post-war Britain (Oxford, 1989)
412. D. J. Taylor, After the War: The Novel and English Society since 1945 (London, 1993)
413. Philip Tew, The Contemporary British Novel (London, 2004)
414. Patricia Waugh, The Harvest of the Sixties (Oxford, 1995)
415. James Wood, 'England', in John Sturrock, ed., The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing (Oxford, 1996), 113-41.
416. Randall Stevenson, The Last of England? (Oxford, 2004)
417. Bruce King, The Internationalization of English Literature (Oxford, 2004).
418. Ian A. Bell, ed., Peripheral Visions (Cardiff, 1995)
419. Tracey Hill and William Hughes, eds., Contemporary Writing and National Identity (Bath, 1995).
420. Bernard Bergonzi, The Situation of the Novel (London, 1970)
421. Malcolm Bradbury and David Palmer, eds., The Contemporary English Novel (London, 1979).
422. A. S. Byatt's critical essays have been collected as On Histories and Stories (London, 2000).
423. Studies of multicultural English fiction include Ian Baucom, Out of Place (Princeton, 1999)
424. Simon Gikandi, Maps of Englishness (New York, 1996)
425. A. Robert Lee, ed., Other Britain, Other British (London, 1995)
426. John McLeod, Postcolonial London (London, 2004)
427. Susheila Nasta, Home Truths (Basingstoke, 2002)
428. James Procter, Dwelling Places (Manchester, 2003)
429. Lars Ole Sauerberg, Intercultural Voices in Contemporary British Literature (Basingstoke, 2001).
430. Caryl Phillips's anthology Extravagant Strangers (London, 1998)
431. Salman Rushdie's essays collected in Imaginary Homelands (London, 1991)
432. Bryan Cheyette, Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society (Cambridge, 1993).
433. Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto has been edited by Mari-Jane Rochelson (Detroit, 1998).
434. Jean Rhys's pre-war fiction has been collected as The Early Novels (London, 1984).
435. Anthony Burgess's 'Malayan Trilogy' was reprinted as The Long Day Wanes (London, 1984)
436. Evelyn Waugh's 'Final version' of his trilogy has appeared in a critical edition as Sword of Honour, ed. Angus Calder (London, 1999).
437. Carole Angier, Jean Rhys: Life and Work (London, 1990)
438. Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh: A Biography (2nd edn., Harmondsworth, 1977).
439. Isabelle Joyau is the author of Investigating Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time' (Basingstoke, 1994).
440. V. S. Naipaul's Work include Landeg White, V.S. Naipaul (London, 1975)
441. Bruce King, V. S. Naipaul (Basingstoke, 1993)
442. Fawzia Mustafa, V. S. Naipaul (Cambridge, 1995).
443. Selwyn R. Cudjoe, V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading (Amherst, Mass., 1988)
444. Rob Nixon, London Calling (New York, 1992)
445. Timothy F. Weiss, On the Margins (Amherst, Mass., 1992).