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Bradbury, Malcolm, and Palmer, David, eds. The Contemporary English Novel. London: Edward Arnold, 1980. Reflects the critical opinion of the 1970s.

Bradbury, Malcolm, ed. The Modern British Novel. London: Penguin, 1994.

Bradbury, Malcolm, ed. The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction. London: Fontana,

Fletcher, John. Novel and Reader. London: Boyers, 1980. 19th- and 20th-century history and culture of the novel.

Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. London: Hodder and Stoughton in association with Edward Arnold, 1996. Important study by a novelist. Originally published in 1927.

Kilgour, Maggie. The Rise of the Gothic Novel. London: Routledge, 1995. Useful study of a particular genre.

Lodge, David. The Practice of Writing. London: Secker and Warburg, 1996. Study by a novelist and lecturer.

Lukacs, Georg. Essays on Realism. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1980. Important work by a major Marxist critic.

Lukacs, Georg. The Historical Novel. London: Merlin Press, 1962. Translated by Hannah and Stanley Mitchell. Valuable study using various major novels to illustrate.

Lukacs, Georg. The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Political Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature. London: Merlin Press, 1971. Translated by Anne Bostock.

Massie, Allan. The Novel Today: A Critical Guide to the British Novel 1970-1989. London: Longman, 1990.

Moses, Michael Valdez. The Novel and the Globalization of Culture. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Studies Hardy, Conrad, Achebe, and Varga Llosa.

Robbe-Grillet, Alain. For A New Novel: Essays on Fiction. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1989. Translated by Richard Howard. Re-evaluates the techniques, ethos, and limits of contemporary fiction.

Stevenson, Randall. A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel in Britain. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. Examines the subject with commentary on major and less well-known novelists, and the social, political, and cultural context, including an essay on the Modernist novel.

Trotter, David. The English Novel in History, 1895-1920. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Detailed analysis of early 20th-century English fiction - stylistic and historical study.

Walder, Dennis, ed. The Realist Novel. London and New York: Routledge in association with The Open University, 1995. Nineteenth-century classic novels studied from the aspect of theme and form.

Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. Harmondsworth: Penguin, Studies individual novelists, the genesis and development of the novel, a social and historical examination of 18th-century culture.