This first volume records full details of all known prose novels in English first published in the British Isles in the final three decades of the eighteenth century.

This book also includes an extensive historical introduction by Peter Garside that offers a comprehensive overview of the main aspects of production, marketing and reception of fiction in the Romantic era.

Die Studie untersucht mit literaturwissenschaftlichen und literatur-soziologischen Mitteln die früheste volkstümliche Konsumliteratur Europas, die sogenannten «chapbooks», und modifiziert so die Literaturgeschichtsschreibung des ...

The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend, or to ourselves. (Clara Reeve).