The British Novel, 1680‐1832: An Annotated Bibliography

This is another in the series of Magill Bibliographies which, since their inception in 1989, are now assuming impressive numbers. Laurence W. Mazzeno, its compiler, is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Ursuline College in Ohio, and he has already produced two earlier bibliographies in this series, one on Victorian poetry and the other on the Victorian novel. As will be gathered from his title, Professor Mazzeno’s coverage is from Aphra Behn to Walter Scott. To those of us on this side of the Atlantic his use of the term “British novel” seems unusual. Perhaps he wanted to be punctilious...