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–        Barella Vigal, Julia, ‘Las Noches de invierno de Antonio de Eslava: entre el folklore y la tradición erudita’, Príncipe de Viana, 175 (1985), 513-565

–        Ed. by Rafael Bonilla Cerezo, Novelas cortas del siglo XVII (Madrid: Cátedra, 2010), pp. 11-128

–        Ed. by Jean Canavaggio, La invención de la novela (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 1999)

–        Cayuela, Anne, Le paratexte au Siècle d’Or. Prose romanesque, livres et lecteurs en Espagne au XVIIe siècle (Geneva: Droz, 1996)

–        Colón Calderón, Isabel, La novela corta en el siglo XVII (Madrid: Laberinto, 2001)

–        Gómez, Jesús, ‘Boccaccio y Otálora en los orígenes de la novela corta en España’, Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 46 (1998), 23-46

–        Núñez Rivera, José Valentín, ‘Las Diez novelas de Pedro de Salazar y los Cuatro cuentos de ejemplos. Autoría común y estructura compartida’, Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 58 (2010), 59-93

–        Ripoll, Begoña, La novela barroca: catálogo bio-bibliográfico (1620-1700) (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1991)

–        Rodríguez Cuadros, Evangelina, ‘La novela corta del barroco español: una tradición compleja y una incierta preceptiva’, Monteagudo, 1 (1996), 27-46

–        Schwartz Lerner, Lía, ‘La retórica de la cita en las Novelas a Marcia Leonarda de Lope de Vega’, Edad de Oro, 19 (2000), 265-285

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Lorna Clymer and Robert Mayer eds., Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century in Honour of Everett Zimmerman (Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 2007).

Lennard J. Davis, Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983),

Andrew Hiscock, ‘Blabbing Leaves of Betraying Paper: Configuring the Past in George Gascoigne’s The Adventures of Master F. J., Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller and Thomas Deloney’s Jack Of Newbury’, English 52 (2003), pp. 1-20

Robert Mayer, History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact From Bacon to Defoe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

William Nelson, Fact or Fiction: The Dilemma of the Renaissance Storyteller (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973)

Karen O’Brien, ‘History and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, in Paulina Kewes ed., The Uses of History in Early Modern England (San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 2006), pp. 389-405.

Mark Salber Phillips, Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)

Barbara J. Shapiro, A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000)

Everett Zimmerman, The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996) 

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Aercke, Kristiaan P, ‘Congreve’s Incognita: Romance, Novel, Drama?,’Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2:4 (July, 1990), 1-16

Ahern, Stephen, ‘Prose fiction, Excluding Romance,’ ed. Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins, The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume Three: 1660-1700 (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2005), 328-338

Ballaster, Ros, Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction 1684-1740 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 1992)

Bayley, Peter, ‘Fixed Form and Varied Function: Reflections on the Language of French Classicism,’ Seventeenth-Century French Studies 6 (1984), 6-21.

Cottegnies, Line, ‘AphraBehn’s French Translations,’ ed. Derek Hughes and Janet Todd, The Cambridge Companion to AphraBehn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 221-234

DeJean, Jean, Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991)

Doody, Margaret,The True Story of the Novel (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)

Mish, Charles C, ‘English Short Fiction in the Seventeenth Century,’Studies in Short Fiction 6:3 (Spring 1969), 233-330

Salzman, Paul, English Prose Fiction 1558-1700: A Critical History (Oxford: ClarendonPress, 1985)

Schwartz, Deborah,‘Writing her Own Life: Villedieu, Henriette-Sophie de Molière and Female Empowerment,’ in Michael Guggenheim ed., Women in French Literature (Saratoga, CA: AnnaLibri, 1988), 77-89.

Tucker, J.E., ‘The Earliest English Translations of Scarron’s Nouvelles,’ Revue de literature comparée24 (1950), 557-65

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Nandini Das, Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570-1620 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)

Alex Davis, Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003)

John Colin Dunlop, History of prose Fiction, ed., Henry Wilson (New York: AMS Press, 1969). Originally published in 1814; has useful summaries of the lengthy mid-century romances.

Barbara Fuchs, Romance (New York: Routledge, 2004)

Helen Hackett, Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Thomas P. Haviland, The Roman de Longue Haleine on English Soil (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1931)

Victoria Kahn, ‘Reinventing Romance, or the Surprising Effects of Sympathy,’ in Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002), 625-61

Naomi Conn Liebler ed., Early Modern Prose Fiction: The Cultural Politics of Reading (New York: Routledge, 2007)

George M. Logan and Gordon Teskey ed., Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989)

Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)

Steve Mentz, Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: the Rise of Prose Fiction (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)

Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)

Annabel Patterson, Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Reading and Writing in Early Modern England(Madison, 1984), esp. pp. 159-202

Lois Potter, Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641-1660 (Cambridge, 1989), esp. pp. 72-112

Clare Reeve, The Progress of Romance, through Times, Countries, and Manners (London: Printed for the Author, 1785). Full text available here: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000007087707;seq=12;view=1up

Constance C. Relihan and Goran V. Stanivukovic ed., Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1570-1640 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)

Benedict S. Robinson, Islam and Early Modern English Literature: The Politics of Romance from Spenser to Milton (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

Paul Salzman, English Prose Fiction, 1558-1700 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1985)

Corinne J. Saunders, A Companion to Romance: from Classical to Contemporary (Malden: Blackwell, 2004)

Rebecca Tierney-Hynes, Novel Minds: Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

Marion A. Wells, The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007)

Amelia A. Zurcher, Seventeenth-Century English Romance: Allegory, Ethics and Politics (New York and Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2007)

Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)