Survey of English Literature:

The Novel in the 18th Century

Early Novels:
John Lyly, Euphues (1578)
Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia (1581) - New Arcadia (1584; 1590);
Composite Arcadia (1593)
Thomas Lodge, Rosalynde (1590)
Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)
Lady Mary Wroth (1587?-1651), The Countess of Montgomeries Urania (1621)
Anna Weamys, A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia (1651)
Francis Kirkman, The Counterfeit Lady Unveiled (1673)
John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress (1676)
Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684-87)
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688)
John Congreve, Incognita (1691)
Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (1704)
Major 18th Century Novels
1709
1719
1720
1722
1724

Delarivier Mary Manley, New Atlantis

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Captain Singleton; Memoirs of a Cavalier
Defoe, Moll Flanders; History of the Plague Year
Defoe, Roxana

1726 Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels (1729: A Modest Proposal)

1740
1741
1742
1744
1747
1748
1749
1751

Samuel Richardson, Pamela

Henry Fielding, Shamela
Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Sarah Fielding, The Adventures of David Simple
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
Tobias Smollett, Roderick Random
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
Fielding, Amelia
Eliza Heywood, Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
1752 Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote
1753 Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison
Smollett, Ferdinand Count Fathom
1759 Dr. Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
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1771
1777
1778
1782
1786
1791
1792
1794
1796
1798
1811
1813
1814
1816
1818
1819
1820

Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy

Frances Sheridan, The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling
Smollett, Humphry Clinker
Frances Brooke, The Excursion
Clara Reeve, The Old English Baron
Fanny Burney, Evelina
Fanny Burney, Cecilia
William Beckford, Vathek
Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives
William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
Matthew Lewis, The Monk
Robert Bage, Hermsprong; or, Man As He is Not
(post.) Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria; or, the Wrongs of Woman
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Mansfield Park
Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
Austen, Emma
Austen, Northanger Abbey; Persuasion
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor; Ivanhoe
Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer

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McKeon, Michael (1987) The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740. Johns Hopkins Univ.
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Richetti, John (1996) Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel.
Cambridge: Univ. of Cambridge Press.
Watt, Ian (1957) The Rise of the Novel. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.