Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 462-494).
[Part I. From lives of the novelists] -- Samuel Richardson -- Henry Fielding -- Tobias Smollett -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Laurence Sterne -- Henry MacKenzie -- Horace Walpole -- Clara Reeve -- Ann Radcliffe -- Alain Le Sage -- Charles Johnstone -- Robert Bage -- Jonathan Swift -- Daniel Defoe -- Charlotte Smith -- [Part II. Occasional essays and reviews] -- Fleetwood by William Godwin -- Fatal revenge by Dennis Murphy (Maturin) -- John de Lancaster by Richard Cumberland -- Emma by Jane Austen -- Tales of my landlord by Walter Scott -- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley -- Women ... by Maturin -- The omen by John Galt -- On the supernatural in fictitious composition, and particularly on the work of Ernest Theodore William Hoffmann -- The Adventures of Hajji Baba; The Kuzzilbash by James Morier & James Baillie Frazer -- The pilgrim's progress (ed. by Robert Southey) -- [Part III. From The prefaces] -- Authorship -- The most legitimate plan -- On contemporary fiction -- The historical novel -- Methods of construction -- On popularity -- Under interrogation