LITERARY HISTORY
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (15 VOLS)
OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (12 VOLS)
THE OXFORD ANTHOLOGY TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (6 VOLS)
THE MACMILLAN ANTHOLOGIES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (5 VOLS)
THE MACMILLAN HISTORY OF LITERATURE (11 VOLS)
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (2 VOLS) N.Y.
THE NORTON INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE. N.Y.
ALLEN, W. The English Novel, Pelican Books, 1954-1980
ALBERT, E. History of English Literature. London Nelson. 1983.
BARBARD, R. Short History of English Literature. London. Routledge. 1984.
BAUGH, A. Literary History of England. (4 vols) London: Routledge. 1968.
BLAMIRES, H. A Short History of English Literature. London. Routledge. 1984
BURGESS, A. English Literature. Essex. Longman. (1958) 1993
CECIL, Lord D. Early Victorian Novelists, London, 1934.
CONRAD, P. The Everyman History of English Literature. London. Dent. 1985
COOTE, S. The Penguin History of English Literature. London. Penguin 1993.
DAICHES, D. A Critical History of English Literature. (4 vols) London: Secker & Warburg, (1968) 1990.
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GILLIE C. Longman Companion to English Literature. Longman, 1972
GRAY, M. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. London. O.U.P 1985
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RAJAN, T. Dark Interpreter. The Discourse of Romanticism. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1980
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CRITICAL THEORY
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. New York: Holt, 1981
Bergonzi, B. Exploring English: Criticism, Theory and Culture. Oxford: O.U.P 1990
Baldick, C. In Frankestein´s Shadow: Myth, Monstruosity, and Nineteenth-century Writing. London: Clarendon
Press, 1990.
Barker, Gerard A. Grandison's Heirs: The Paragon's Progress in the Late Eighteenth-Century English Novel.
Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1985.
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Boulton, M. The Anatomy of the Novel. London. Routledge, 1975
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Collier Macmillan, 1985.
Buckley, J.H. Season of Youth: The Bildungsroman from Dickens to Golding. Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1974
Cecil, Lord D. Early Victorian Novelists. London: Constable, 1964.
Church, R. The Growth of the English Novel. London: Methuen, 1961
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Couturier, M. Textual Communication: A Print-Based Theory of the Novel. London: Routledge, 1990.
Cohan, Steven. Violation and Repair in the English Novel: The Paradigm of Experience from Richardson to
Woolf. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1986.
Daleski, H. M. Unities: Studies in the English Novel. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
Danon, Ruth. Work in the English Novel: The Myth of Vocation. London: Croom Helm, 1985.
Dupriez, B. A Dictionary of Literary Devices. London: Harvester, 1991
Eagleton. T. Literary Theory: an Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983.
Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel. San Diego: Harcourt, 1947, 1954
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Frye, N. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. London: Penguin Books, 1990 (1957)
Gray, M. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. Harlow: Longman, 1984.
Hardy, B. Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction. London: Routledge, 1986
Hawthorn, J. Studying the Novel. London: Arnold, 1985
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Higbie, Robert. Character & Structure in the English Novel. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1984.
Keating, P. J. The Haunted Study: A Social History of the English Novel, 1875-1914. London: Secker &
Warburg, 1989.
Kayser, W. Interpretación y Análisis de la Obra Literaria. Madrid Gredos. 1976
Kelly, G. English Fiction of the Romantic period, 1789-1830. London: Longman, 1989
Kettle, A. An Introduction to the English Novel. 2 vols. London: Hutchinson, 1967.
Kiely, R. The Romantic Novel in England. Cambridge. Mass: Harvard U.P. 1973
Lambropoulos, V. & Miller, D. M. (eds) Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: an Introductory Anthology. Albany:
State Univ. of N.Y. Press, 1987
Konigsberg, Ira. Narrative Technique in the English Novel: Defoe to Austen. Hamden, CT: Archon Books,
1985.
Litvak, Joseph. Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1992.
Leavis, F.R. The Great Tradition. Hammondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
McCullough, B. Representative English Novelist: Defoe to Conrad. New York. Books for Library Press, 1972.
McKeon, Michael. The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1987.
McKillop, A. The Early Master of English Fiction. Lawrence: U. of Kansas Press, 1956
Milligan, I. The Novel in English. London: Macmillan, 1983.
Muir, E. The Structure of the Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1979
Musselwhite, David E. Partings Welded Together: Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English
Novel. London; NY: Methuen, 1987.
Page, Norman. Speech in the English Novel. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1988.
Paulson, N. Satire and the Novel in the 18th-century England. New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1967
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University Press, 1991.
Priestley, J.B. The English Novel. London: Nelson, 1935.
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English Novel. Cambridge, Mass.: B. Blackwell, 1990.
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Scheuermann, Mona. Social Protest in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel. Columbus: Ohio State
University Press, 1985.
Skilton, D. Defoe to the Victorians: Two centuries of the English Novel. Hammondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
Smith, G. The Novel and Society: Defoe to George Eliot. London: Batsford, 1984.
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Unwin, 1966
Stevenson, L. The English Novel: A panorama. London: Greenwood, 1978.
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Sutherland, J. The Longman Comapnion to Victorian Fiction. London: Longman, 1990.
Van Ghent, Dorothy. The English Novel: Form and Function. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1949.
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1990.
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Wiesenfarth, Joseph. Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1988.
Wheeler, M. English Fiction of the Victorian Period, 1830-1890. London: Longman, 1985.
Williams, I. The Realist Novel in England: a Study in Development. London: Macmillan, 1974.
ON WOMEN AND WOMEN’S WRITING
Bald, M. Women writers of the 19th century. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1928.
Beer, P. Reader, I Married Him: a Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth
Gaskell and George Eliot. London: Macmillan, 1974.
Blake, k. Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature. Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1983.
Brophy, Elizabeth Bergen. Women's Lives and the 18th-Century English Novel. Tampa: University of South
Florida Press, 1991.
Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the 19th century. New York. N.Y.U. Press, 1970.
Crosby, C. The Ends of History: Victorians and the Woman Question. London: Routledge, 1990.
Eagleton, Mary (ed.) Feminist Literary Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
Gilbert, S. & Gubar, S. The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven & London: Yale U. Press, 1979.
Halperin, J. (ed.) Plots and Characters in the Fiction of Jane Austen, The Brontes and G. Eliot. Hamden, Conn,
1976.
Horner, Avril & Zlosnik, S. Landscapes of Desire: Metaphors in Modern Women´s Fiction. London: Harvester,
1990
Kahn, Madeleine. Narrative Transvestism : Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Langbauer, Laurie. Women and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 1990.
Miles, R. The Female Form: Women Writers and the Conquest of the Novel. London: Routledge, 1987.
Moers E. Literary Women: The Great Writers London: The Women´s Press, 1978.
Moi, Toril SexualTextual Politics: feminist Literary Theory. London: Methuen, 1985. (Cátedra, 1988)
Rigney, B. Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist novel. Studies in Bronte, Woolf, Lessing and Atwood.
Madison: The U. of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
Showalter, Elaine A Literature of Their Own: from Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing. London: Virago, 1979.
Todd, J. (ed.) Dictionary of British Women Writers. London: Routledge, 1991
Watt, George. The Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel. London: Croom Helm; Totowa,
NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1984.
Williams, Merryn. Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900 NY: St. Martin's Press, 1984.
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Yeazell, Ruth Bernard. Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Woolf, V. A Room of One´s Own. London: HBJ, 1981 (1929)
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