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Websites
Amazon
www.amazon.co.uk
Find books by all or any of the authors featured in The Story of the Novel and on this website at Amazon. You can also find a wide range of supporting material.
Blackwell's
http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk
Browse Blackwell's Online Bookshop to find any of the novels featured on this site. Their extensive catalogue caters for every speciality, with the latest releases and recommendations.
WHSmith
www.bookshop.co.uk
The WHSmith online bookstore allows you to search by title, author or department, in addition to a quick search facility. If you want to order any of the books featured in The Story of the Novel, you'll find them here.
Literature.org
www.literature.org
Read the works of many famous novelists online, including Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and all three Bronte sisters.
The Society of Authors
www.societyofauthors.org
This Literary Estate Department handles the negotiation and administration for a range of rights to many authors' work, including print permissions.
History of the Novel
www.bibliomania.com/0/0/272/frameset.html
Part of the Bibliomania website, this resource offers a history of the novel in short 'chapters', from authors such as Defoe and Swift through to styles and movements like the Epistolary novel on to the modern day.
British Literature Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/
Literature/World_Literature/British
Find any author in any era with Google's British Literature directory. It also has a wealth of links to relevant and well-written sites, whatever your literary interests.
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The 18th century
Books
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Desire and Domestic Fiction: A political history of the novel by Nancy Armstrong (Oxford University Press, 1990)
Discusses the appearance of the novel and the causal relationship between domestic fiction in the 18th and 19th century and the rise of the middle classes. Buy this book from Amazon |
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Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, representations, and responsibilities edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (Longman, 1997).
Examines the public and private lives of men and women in the 18th century via extensive historical research and a collection of thought-provoking essays. Buy this book from Amazon |
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Daniel Defoe: Master of fictions: His life and works by Maximillian E Novak (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Examines the life and works of Defoe from a modern perspective, discussing his important role in the development of the novel. Buy this book from Amazon |
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Penguin books, 2003)
Regarded as the first English novel, this enduring story was the springboard for the literary explosion of the form in the 18th century. Buy this book from Amazon |
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Foe by JM Coetzee (Penguin books, 1987)
A modern retelling of Defoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe, where a woman finds herself marooned on an island in the Atlantic with an Englishman and his mute slave, Friday. When she is rescued, she approaches the author Daniel Foe, offering him the story. Buy this book from Amazon |
Websites
18th Century Studies
http://eserver.org/18th
A collection of archived works from the 18th century, including novels, plays, memoirs, essays and poems of the period.
Literature Links
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/lit.html
A comprehensive online resource with links to further information about 18th-century society, politics and literature.
Alexander Selkirk: The Real Robinson Crusoe
http://wy.essortment.com/alexanderselkir_rehj.htm
Account of the real-life castaway, Selkirk, who inspired Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe. In 1704, the Scotsman was left alone on a desert island off the coast of South America and survived alone for four years before being picked up by an English ship.
The Shortest Way With Dissenters
www.bartleby.com/27/12.html
The transcript of Defoe's influential and satirical pamphlet from the early 1700s, more than 15 years before he published Robinson Crusoe.
Gothic Literature
http://members.aol.com/iamudolpho/basic.html
Site devoted to study of the Gothic literature, which flourished in 18th century England.
18th Century Literary Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/
World_Literature/British/18th_Century
Directory containing all the great novelists of the 18th century. Click on the author of your choice and find a host of websites with further information.
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The 19th century
Books
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Authors in Context: Charles Dickens by Andrew Sanders (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Examines the work of Charles Dickens in relation to his time and the present-day. The Authors in Context series features many other influential novelists, including Thomas Hardy. Buy this book from Amazon |
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The Victorians by AN Wilson (Hutchinson, 2002)
Wilson, an Evening Standard columnist, novelist, and polemical biographer, discusses the Victorians – and leaves no stone unturned. He has an eye for colourful detail and, among other things, discusses their sexual proclivities, religious hypocrisies and economic and imperial appetites in addition to their literary legacy. Buy this book from Amazon |
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Romantic Victorians: English literature, 1824-1840 by Richard Cronin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
Examines 19th century literature and culture, touching on many authors of the time. Buy this book from Amazon |
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The Oxford History of the British Empire: The 19th Century (Oxford History of the British Empire) edited by Andrew Porter (Oxford University Press, 2001)
An enlightening look at the British Empire, discussing the cultural changes that were so important for the rise of the great English novel. Buy this book from Amazon |
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The Gothic Tradition by David Stevens (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Aims to assist the reader to understand the gothic novel in context with the social and cultural era that produced it. Buy this book from Amazon |
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The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs (Longman, 1999)
Discusses the economic, social, historical and literary movements of the 19th century. Buy this book from Amazon |
Websites
Victorian Web
www.victorianweb.org
This extensive website offers a wide range of information on literature, history and culture in the Victorian age. Also includes an extensive range of 19th century authors, with information about the society they lived in and how it affected their work.
Women's status in 19th Century England
http://members.lycos.co.uk/HastingsHistory/19/overview.htm
Article discussing the many inequalities in society and law for women in the Victorian era.
The Invention of Popular Culture
www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,4081077-106548,00.htmll
Guardian article in which author John Mullan discusses the emergence of mass culture, attributing a large part of it to the explosion of literacy in the 19th century.
19th Century Literary Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/
World_Literature/British/19th_Century
Directory containing all the great novelists of the 19th century. Click on the author of your choice and find a host of websites with further information.
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The 20th century
Books
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The English Novel in History 1895-1920 by David Trotter (Routledge, 1993)
A comprehensive introduction to early 20th century fiction. Buy this book from Amazon |
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Literature in the Modern World: Critical essays and documents edited by Dennis Walder (Oxford University Press, 1990)
This book of essays focuses on the period between the 1920s and the 1980s, covering a wide range of issues. Buy this book from Amazon |
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Ulysses by James Joyce (Penguin, 2000)
Joyce's classic novel manipulates the English language like no novel before it. Not always an easy read, but an enjoyable and fulfilling one. Buy this book from Amazon |
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The Modernist Masters: Studies in the novel (Studies in Comparative Literature) by Morton P Levitt (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002)
Critical discussion of the modernist masters of the 20th century. Buy this book from Amazon |
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American Prose and Poetry in the 20th Century by Caroline Zilboorg (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Discusses the rise of the American novelists and poets of the last century and their influence of the global scene. Buy this book from Amazon |
Websites
Literary Resources
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/20th.html
A collection of British and Irish literary resources concentrating on the 20th century.
IQ Infinity: The unknown James Joyce
www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/index.html
Note-style, disorganised website that contains a wealth of information and criticism.
Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/index.html
Website and society dedicated to Virginia Woolf, one of the great writers of the last century.
The Beat Page
www.rooknet.com/beatpage
Extensive site with information on the landmark literary movement of post-Second World War America, including details of writers such as Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
20th Century Literary Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/
World_Literature/British/20th_Century
Directory containing all the great novelists of the 20th century. Click on the author of your choice and find a host of websites with further information.
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