Primary texts:
- Prefaces to:
- Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe (1719, 1720), Moll Flanders (1722)
- Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews (1742)
- Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-67) (books I-IV)
- Fanny Burney Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1778)
- Jane Austen Emma (1815)
- Italo Calvino If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller (1979)
- J. M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003)
Secondary texts:
- Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics. 1963. Ed. and trans. Caryl Emerson. London: U of Minnesota P, 1984. 106-122
- Bakhtin, Mikhail. “Epic and Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel.” The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981. 3-40
- Booth, Wayne. C. “Point of View and the Control of Distance in Emma. Nineteenth-Century Fiction 16.2 (1961): 95-116
- Gorelick, Nathan. “What Is the Novel? The Fundamental Concepts of a Literary Phenomenon.” Continental Thought & Theory: a Journal of Intellectual Freedom 2.3 (2018): 134-166
- Fludernik, Monika. “The Fiction of the Rise of Fictionality.” Poetics Today 39.1 (2018): 67-92
- Frow, John. “Prefaces to the Novel: Robinson Crusoe and Novelistic Form.” Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 63.2-3 (2016): 96-106
- Gallagher, Catherine. “The Rise of Fictionality.” The Novel Vol. 1. Ed. Franco Moretti, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006. 336-363
- Mulhall, Stephen. The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2009
- Sinding, Michael. “After Definitions: Genre, Categories, and Cognitive Science.” Genre 35.2 (2002): 181-220
- Sinding, Michael. “Framing Monsters: Multiple and Mixed Genres, Cognitive Category Theory, and Gravity’s Rainbow. Poetics Today 31.3 (2010): 465-505
- Skinner, John. An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Raising the Novel. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001
- “Critics and Theorists”
- Stewart, Philip. “The Rise of I.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 13.2/3 (2001): 163-182
- Todorov, Tzvetan, and Richard M. Berrong. “The Origin of Genres.” New Literary History 8.1 (1976): 159-170
- Whitmarsh, Tim. Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel. Oxford: OUP, 2018
- “Prelude”
- “What Is a Novel”
Additional reading:
Bakhtin, Mikhail. “Discourse in the Novel.” The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Trans. Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981. 259-422
Keymer, Thomas. Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel. Oxford: OUP, 2002
Kukkonen, Karin. 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: How the Novel Found Its Feet. New York: OUP, 2019
Seager, Nicholas. The Rise of the Novel. Basingtoke: Palgrave, 2012
Sinding, Michael. “Blending in a baciyelmoI: Don Quixote’s Genre Blending and the Invention of the Novel.” Blending and the Study of Narrative: Approaches and Applications. Ed. Marcus Hartner and Ralf Schneider. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012. 147-171
Paige, Nicholas D. Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2011