This historical bibliography provides an entirely new foundation for the literary history of the late eighteenth century and the Romantic age, reconstructing the full cast of British novelists of the period, their publishers and reviewers. It provides full transcriptions of titles and imprint lines, together with much other bibliographical and historical information, including contemporary reviews (with generous quotations), dedications, and pricing and printing details, as well as an introductory historical essay on the different themes embraced by the novel, profiles of popular authorship, translation, the economics and circumstances of novel production and design, and the scope of literary circulation and reception.

The English Novel 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British IslesVolume I: 1770-1799

Literature & Fiction

Raven, James

Forster, Antonia

Garside, Peter

Schöwerling, Rainer

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

An index to reviews of 4982 works of poetry, fiction and drama published in England between 1775 and 1800, this reference tool offers easy access to reviews in many 18th-century journals. It includes reviews in all the main review journals, "The Monthly Review", "Critical Review", "English Review","London Review", Analytical Review", "British Critic", "New Review", "Anti-Jacobin Review" and "New London Review", the major magazines and 13 minor magazines or periodicals less well known in the area of book reviewing. Although the focus is on English periodicals, two Scottish magazines and one Irish one are included. Although the work is primarily an index to the reviews, it also amounts to an index to the works themselves, since all the works reviewed, as far as possible, have also been examined. Like its predecessor, "Index of Book Reviews in England 1749-1774", it aims to provide information about titles, types and quantities of works published. It also provides more accurate estimated publication dates for undated works.

Index to Book Reviews in England, 1775-1800

History & Criticism

The British Library

This index provides valuable information on the vast majority of reviews of poetry, fiction, and drama during the first 25 years of modern, formalized book reviewing in England.
Forster introduces readers to the wealth of material in the two major review journals (Monthly Review and Critical Review), the two major magazines (Gentleman’s and London), and 11 other periodicals. She includes in her 3,023 entries information on format, price, and bookseller’s name taken from the books themselves. In her Introduction, Forster surveys some material concerning the reviewers’ public attitude to their self-appointed task to provide a background against which the reviewers’ literary judgments can be examined.

Index to Book Reviews in England: 1749 - 1774

Southern Illinois University Press

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