USEFUL TEXTS FOR LIT 2012 RESEARCH

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Critical and Historical Studies of the Novel

Abel, Elizabeth , Marianne Hirsch, and Elizabeth Langland. The Voyage In: Fictions of  

     Female Development.  Hanover, NH: U of New England P, 1983.  PR830.W6 V69 1983.

Bakhtin, Mikhail . The Dialogic Imagination. Austin: U of Texas P, 1982. PN3331 .B2513.

Chase, Richard.  The American Novel and Its Tradition.  Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 

     1957. PS371 .C5 1983.

Donovan, Josephine. Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726. Palgrave, 2000.

Doody, Margaret Anne. The True Story of the Novel.  New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 1996.

     PN3355 .D66 1996 and e-book.

Freeman, Richard.  The Novel.  New York: Newsweek Books, 1975.

Genette, Gérard . Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 

     1983.

Kershner, R.B. The Twentieth Century English Novel: An Introduction. Boston: Bedford
 
     Books, 1997. PN3503 .K47 1997.

Kundera, Milan. The Art of the Novel.  Trans. Linda Asher. New York: Grove Press, 

     1987.   PN3453 .K8613 1987.

Layoun, Mary N. Travels of a Genre : The Modern Novel and Ideology. Princeton, N.J. : 

     Princeton UP, 1990.  PN3503 .L376 1990 

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lectures on Literature. Ed.  Fredson Bowers.  Intro. John Updike. 2 

     vols. New York :Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,  1980-1981.  PN3499 .N3 1980 

Richetti, John, ed. The Columbia History of the British Novel. New York: Columbia 

     University Press, 1994. e-book.

___________,  ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth Century Novel.  

     Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. PR851 .C36 1996.

Showalter, Elaine. The Evolution of the French Novel, 1641-1782. Princeton: Princeton 

     UP, 1972.

___________. A Literature of Their Own : British Women Novelists from Brontë to 

     Lessing. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.   PR115 .S5 

___________. Sister's Choice : Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing. 

     New York: Oxford UP, 1991.  PS 147 .S48 1991 

Tanner, Tony. Adultery in the Novel : Contract and Transgression. Baltimore : Johns 

     Hopkins University Press, 1979.  PN3352.A38 T3 

Reed, Walter H. An Exemplary History of the Novel. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1981.

Vargas Llosa, Mario. Letters to a Young Novelist. Trans. Natasha Wimmer. New York: 

     Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2002. PQ8498.32.A65 C32813 2002

Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. Berkley: U 

     of CA P, 1957.   PR 851 .W37 

Williams, Ian. The Idea of the Novel in Europe 1600-1800. New York: Macmillan, 1979.

Studies on Film Adaptations of Novels

Aragay, Mireia ed. Books in motion: adaptation, intertextuality, authorship. e-book.

Bazin, Andre. What Is Cinema? 1967. PN1994 .B3513.

Bluestone, George. Novels into Film. 1981. PN1997.85 .B

Corrigan, Timothy.  Film and literature : an introduction and reader. 1999. PN1995.3 .C68

Horton, Andrew and Joan Magretta, eds. Modern European filmmakers and the art

      of adaptation. 1981. PN1997.85 .M66

Klein, Michael and Gillian Parker. The English novel and the movies. 1981. PN1997.85 .E53 

Leitch, Thomas M. Film Adaptation and Its Discontents, 2007. PN1997.85 .L35 2007

 McFarlane, Brian. Novel to film : an introduction to the theory of adaptation.  1996.

      PN1997.85 .M338 1996.

Naremore, James, ed. Film Adaptation. 2000.

Smiley, Robin H. Books into film : the stuff that dreams are made of. 2003.

     REF PN1997.85 .S58 2003

Tibbetts, John C. et al., The encyclopedia of novels into film. 2005. REF PN1997.85 .T54 2005