Peter Garside is Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University

Rainer Schöwerling is Professor of English Literature, University of Paderborm, Germany

"It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this monumental work...Both the bibliography and the introduction show the importance of the new branch of literary studies known as book history...With the availability of The English Novel 1770-1829, criticism of British literature ...can enter a new phase."--ECCB

"[The editors'] sixty years' coverage of 'Romantic Fiction'...makes up the nearest thing to a complete listing we have for any period before the twentieth century. It is certainly the most scrupulous. Where they can be located...the editors...have examined novels physically for the purposes of description and transcription. The project took them ten years. A hard-working and peripatetic decade it must have been.... The achievement of this magnificent bibliography...reminds one forcibly of the insecure base on which literary criticism rests.... There is scandalously little incentive for academics to do the kind of work that James Raven, Peter Garside and Rainer Schowerling have nobly undertaken."--Times Literary Supplement