Digital Resources for the European Novel
On this page you will find a list of online resources that may be useful in researching your essays. Please note that this is far from exhaustive. It is divided in two parts.
At the top (part 1) is a list of (mostly) videos offering contextual materials and lectures.
Further down (part 2), a list of secondary sources, both journal articles as well as books, all available in digital form through the library. For the primary readings, please see the list provided in with links to e-books accessible via the library.
For books, most of the links below will take you to the Library catalogue page so you can log in. For journal articles, please log in through the library.
Part1.
The European Novel
鈥樷 book talk by Daniel Schwarz. Cornell University
Goethe. 鈥楾he Sorrows of Young Werther鈥
Belinda Jack. 鈥樷 (after 35鈥 refers to Goethe鈥檚 novel)
Austen. 鈥楨mma鈥
Mary Jean Corbett. 鈥樷. New School
Cornel West. 鈥樷. The Morgan Library & Museum
Kathryn Sutherland. 鈥樷. British Library
Kathryn Sunderland. 鈥樷. British Library
Flaubert. 鈥楳adame Bovary鈥
鈥樷. In Our Time. Channel 4 (audio)
Arnold Wainstein. 鈥樷
Dostoevsky. 鈥楥rime and Punishment鈥
Rowan Williams. 鈥
Tolstoy. 鈥楢nna Karenina鈥
Rosamund Bartlett. 鈥樷
Rosamund Bartlett. 鈥'
Rosamund Bartlett. 鈥樷
Zola. 鈥楪erminal鈥
Michael Rosen. 鈥樷. 5X15
Genevi猫ve de Viveiros. 鈥'. EZolaproject
Kafka. 鈥楾he Trial鈥
Judith Butler. 鈥樷. London Review of Books
鈥'. In Our Time (audio)
George Steiner. 鈥.' Great Writers Series (lecture proper starts after excerpt from film at about 7鈥 28鈥)
Lampedusa. 鈥楾he Leopard鈥
Denis Kitzinger. 鈥樷
Assia Djebar. 鈥楢lgerian White鈥
鈥樷. Duke University.
Seamus Deane. 鈥楻eading in the Dark鈥
Joe Cleary. 鈥樷. Seamus Dean Lecture Series. Notre Dame University
Sebald. 鈥楢usterlitz鈥
with Mark Anderson, Daniel Kehlman, Judith Ryan. The Graduate Center, CUNY
'鈥. Bookworm Interview with Sebald and Michael Silverblatt. KCRW, Santa Monica. 6 December 2001
鈥樷: Source Photographic Review. Dir. Richard West
Basic Reading List of Secondary Sources
- General
Erich Auerbach, (1946)
Mikhail Bakhtin, (1981)
- (1984)
George Becker, ed., (1963)
Michael Bell, ed., (2012)
Eric Bulson, ed., (2018)
Mary Jean Corbett. . Cornell UP, 2008.
Nicholas Dames. 鈥淭heories of the Novel.鈥 y. Ed. M. A. R. Habib. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 506-523.
Margaret Anne Doody, (1996)
Lillian R. Furst, (1995)
Andrew Hammond, ed., (2016)
John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor, eds., (2012)
John Richetti, ed., (1996)
Martin Wagner, (2018)
2. Nation
Victorian/English Novel
Amanda Anderson, (1993)
Deirdre David, ed., (2001)
Terry Eagleton, (2005)
Patricia Ingham, (1996)
Francis O'Gorman, ed., (2010)
French Literature: General
David F. Bell, (2004)
David Coward, (2002)
Brian Nelson, ed., (2015)
John D. Lyons, ed. (2015)
Sandy Petrey, (1988)
Timothy Unwin, (1997)
German Literature: General
Henry B. Garland, Mary Garland, eds. (1986)
David Hill, ed., (2003)
Dennis Mahoney, ed., (2003)
Helen Watanabe-O鈥橩elly, ed., (2000)
Russian Literature: General
Neil Cornwell, ed., (2001)
Richard Freeborn, (1982)
John Garrard, (1983)
Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller, eds., (1998)
A. Moser, (1989)
3. Individual authors/texts
Some of these works are relevant to more than one of the set texts. Where this is the case, they are listed the first time they are likely to be useful. There are of course many other general and specific studies on authors, genres, and periods, which you can track down.
Goethe and Werther
John Mullan, (1988)
Lesley Sharpe, ed., (2002)
Martin Swales, Goethe, (1987)
Flaubert and Madame Bovary
Victor Brombert, (1966)
Jonathan Culler, (1974)
Mary Orr, (2000)
Laurence Porter, (2001)
Jane Austen and Emma
Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, eds. (1997)
Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite, eds. (2009)
Suzanne Juhasz. 鈥溾. Persuasions 21.1 (2000)
Dostoevsky and Crime and Punishment
Donald Fanger, (1998)
Joseph Frank, Marina Brodskya, Marguerite Frank. (2019)
Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: (2009)
Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova. (2016)
Tolstoy and Anna Karenina
Anthony Thorlby, (1987)
Zola and Germinal
David Baguley. 鈥淕erminal: the gathering storm鈥. . Ed. Brian Nelson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 137-151. Chapter DOI: .
Eduardo A. Febles, (2010)
Brian Nelson, ed., (2007)
Philip Walker, (1984)
Franz Kafka and The Trial
Julian Preece, ed. (2002)
Stanley Corngold. (2006)
Carolin Duttlinger, ed., (2018)
Carolin Duttlinger, ed., (2013)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and The Leopard
Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel (2003) (Ch9 on Lampedusa).
Richard H.Lansing, The Structure of Meaning in Lampedusa鈥檚 Il Gattopardo, PMLA 93:3, 1978 (409-422)
Nelson Moe, (2002)
Richard O'Mara, 'The Leopard Reconsidered' in Sewanee Review, Vol 116, Number 4, Fall 2008, pp. 637-644
- (1973)
Olga Ragusa, 'Stendhal, Tomasi di Lampedusa, and the Novel', Comparative Literature Studies 3 (1973)
Eduardo Saccone, 鈥楴obility and Literature: Questions on Tomasi di Lampedusa, MLN 106 (1991), 159-178
Assia Djebar and Algerian White
Priscilla Ringrose. (2006)
L铆dia Jorge, The Murmuring Coast
. Special Issue of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 2, 1999.
Sousa, Ronald W. 'The Critique of History in L铆dia Jorge's A Costa dos Murm煤rios, or Helen of Beira Meets Lu铆s of Troy'. Cincinnati Review 16 (1997): 135-143.
Kaufman, Helena. 'Reclaiming the Margins of History in L铆dia Jorge's A Costa dos Murm煤rios'. Luso-Brazilian Review 29.1 (1992): 41-49.
Faulkner, Sally and Ana Martins. 'Intermedial Dialogue in A Costa dos Murm煤rios / The Murmuring Coast (L铆dia Jorge 1988 / Margarida Cardoso, 2004): Novel, Photography, Film'. Journal of Romance Studies 16.2 (2016): 36-57.
Medeiros, Paulo de. 'Hauntings: Memory, Fiction, and the Portuguese Colonial Wars'. In Commemorating War: The Politics of Memory. Eds. Timothy G. Ashplant, Graham Dawson, Michael Roper. London: Routledge, 2000, 201-221.
Medeiros, Paulo de. 'Haunted Houses'. Journal x: A Journal in Culture and Criticism 6.2 (2002): 163-176.
Soares, Anthony. "". Ellipsis: Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association. 4 (2006): 79-97. Also accessible at
W. G. Sebald and Austerlitz
Anne Whitehead, (2004)
Cosgrove, Mary. 'W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz'. In Stuart Taberner, ed. (2011), 195-210.
J. Long. (2012)
Seamus Deane and Reading in the Dark
Maurice Fitzpatrick and Seamus Deane, 'An Interview with Seamus Deane'. Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 22 (2007), pp. 84-92.