The Short Fiction in Peter Motteux's «The Gentleman's Journal» (1692-1694)

This book offers readers an annotated collection of the short prose fictions that were published by Peter Motteux in The Gentleman's Journal ,1692-1694. Framed by a critical introduction and a commentary, the texts are offered in modern spelling, making these crucial works in the very early history of prose fiction accessible to academic readers.

This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteux's The Gentleman's Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals running from 1692 to 1694. These proto-novelistic fictions are accompanied by a scholarly introduction as well as notes and comments to make them more accessible to twenty-first-century readers. Published at a time when there was no firm agreement on the generic nature of short narrative prose fiction, this text corpus forms an important moment in the history of the novel. In the closing years of the seventeenth century, following major political revolutions, periodical culture in England began to develop. It nurtured an interest in all forms of reading material, including reading for pleasure in the form of narrative prose fiction. The generic and topical ranges included in the texts offered contemporary authors-to-be inspiration. This edition allows anybody interested in the history of the novel to see a genre being formed.

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Gerd Bayer is Professor of English literature and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research interests include early modern and contemporary prose fiction, literary and cinematic representations of the Holocaust and heavy metal studies. María José Coperías-Aguilar is Professor of English literature and culture at the University of Valencia. Her research focuses mostly on early modern and contemporary prose fiction, with special emphasis on female authors.

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Acknowledgements - The Short Fiction in Peter Motteux's The Gentleman's Journal (1692- 1694) - January 1692 (I): The VAIN- GLORIOUS CITT: Or, The STOCK- JOBBER - January 1692 (II): THE NOBLE STATUARY - February 1692: The Friendly Cheat, a Novel - March 1692: Love's Alchymy: Or, A Wife got out of the Fire. A Novel - April 1692 (I): The Platonic Lovers - April 1692 (II): The Adventure of the NIGHT- CAP - May 1692: The false Friend, or the fatherless Couple - June 1692: A Love Story - July 1692: THE JEALOUS HUSBANDS - August 1692: The Reward of Indifference - September 1692: Cupid grown sullen. A Fable - October 1692: LOVE sacrific'd to HONOR - November 1692: THE LADY's FORTUNE - December 1692: The Picture: Or, Jealousy without a Cause. A Novel - January 1963: The Widow by Chance - February 1693: THE POYSONED LOVER - March 1693: The Lover's Legacy - April 1693: The Treacherous Guardian - May 1693: The Witchcraft of Gaming - June 1693: Hypocrisy Out- done: Or, The Imperfect Widow - July 1693: The Match- maker Match'd - August 1693: The DISAPPOINTMENT - September 1693: The Generous Mistress - October 1693: A Gift, and no Gift - November 1693: The Quaker's Gambols - December 1693 (I): Patience Rewarded - December 1693 (II): The Birth of Love and Friendship - January/ February 1694: The Living Ghost: or, The Merry Funeral - March 1694: The Rival Coachmen - April 1694: The Cure of Jealousy - May 1694 (I): The Younger Brother's Fortune - May 1694 (II): The Amours of Day and Night - June 1694: The Female Husband - July 1694: The Punishment of Avarice - August/ September 1694: The Female Beaux - October/ November 1694: The Winter Quarters or like Master, like Man.