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Novels
Novels in the British Romantic period inherit conventions of realism and romance from earlier eighteenth-century works but they also transform them to probe new areas of experience. The “Romantic” or “Gothic” novel traditionally begins with Walpole's Castle of Otranto and continues with works by Beckford, Lewis, Maturin, Radcliffe, Shelley, and Scott, the most popular novelist of the period. The political novel, influenced by the French Revolution and British radicalism and feminism, includes work by Godwin, Edgeworth, Hays, Holcroft, and Wollstonecraft. The novels of Jane Austen, while not considered “Romantic” by previous scholarship, are essential for study of the period.
For studies of the Romantic novel, go to Research Areas, Literary-Critical Studies and click on Novels.
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Austen, Jane |
Sense and Sensibility (1811) |
Beckford,William |
Vathek (1786) |
Burney, Fanny |
Evelina (1778) |
| Dacre, Charlotte. | Zofloya; or The Moor (1806). |
Edgeworth, Maria |
Castle Rackrent (1800) |
Godwin, William |
Caleb Williams (1794) |
Goldsmith, Oliver |
The Vicar of Wakefield (1776) |
Hays, Mary |
Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) |
| Hogg, Thomas Jefferson. | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). |
Holcroft, Thomas |
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794-97) |
Inchbald, Elizabeth |
A Simple Story (1791) |
Lewis, Matthew |
The Monk (1795) |
Mackenzie, Henry |
The Man of Feeling (1771) |
Maturin, Charles |
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) |
| Opie, Amelia | Adelina Mowbray, or the Mother and Daughter (1804) |
| Owenson, Sydney | The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale (1806) |
Peacock, Thomas Love |
Nightmare Abbey (1818) |
Radcliffe, Ann |
A Sicilian Romance (1791) |
Reeve, Clara |
The Old English Baron (1778) |
Scott, Walter |
Waverly (1814) |
Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein (1818) |
Smith, Charlotte |
Emmeline (1788) |
Walpole, Horace |
The Castle of Otranto (1765) |
Wollstonecraft, Mary |
Mary, A Fiction (1788) |