Early British fiction, pre 1750
Publisher: Research Publications; distributed by Primary Source Media
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Woodbridge, CT
Language: eng
Format: [microform]
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: English fiction
Description: Contains hundreds of primary texts gathered from the holdings of major American and British libraries. Includes texts from serious novelists; women authors including Sarah Fielding and Aphra Behn; the works of Grub Street literary hacks; and, continental and other authors. Among the authors included are Defoe, Smollett and Fielding. Contemporary fiction of this period reflected, in one way or another, the political and social currents of the era.
Notes: Based on William H. McBurney's Check list of English prose fiction, 1700-1739 and Jerry C. Beasley's Check list of prose fiction published in England, 1740-1749.

Accompanied by a printed reel guide.