David H Richter

Biographic Data

ID260868
NAMEDavid H Richter
GIVEN NAMESDavid H
FAMILY NAMERichter
SIGNATURERICHTER D H
AFFILIATIONSQueens College, New York
ORCID0000-0001-6389-0715
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • The Evasion of Literary History

    David H Richter, David RichterARTICLEStyle2022

    The origins of most literary genres are lost, either in scholarly controversy or the dark backward and abysm of time, but the Gothic novel presents an admirable clarity. The antiquarian and aesthete Horace Walpole, inspired by a nightmare involving “a gigantic hand in armour,” wrote a novella-length narrative published in December 1764 as The Castle of Otranto. It was akin to similar forgeries evoking the Middle Ages that appeared in the 1760s, l…

  • The Rise of the Novel, or ’Tis Sixty Years Since

    David H Richter, David RichterARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2019

    Review Article| September 01 2019 The Rise of the Novel, or ’Tis Sixty Years Since Orr, Leah. Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690–1730 (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia, 2017). Pp. viii + 336. $45Keymer, Thomas, ed. Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750. Volume 1 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2017). Pp. xxxiv + 637. $125 David H. Richter David H. Richter Queens C…

  • A Companion to Literary Theory

    Open AccessDavid H RichterEDITORBOOKCompanion to Literary Theory2018

  • Companion to Literary Theory

    David H RichterBOOKCompanion to Literary Theory2018

  • Fact, Fiction, and Form

    Ralph W Rader, James Phelan et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today2013Cited by: 2

    Book Review| December 01 2013 Fact, Fiction, and Form: Selected Essays Rader, Ralph W.., Fact, Fiction, and Form: Selected Essays., edited by Phelan, James and Richter, David H.. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011. xii + 369 pp. Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 617–622. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2389632 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Fact, Fiction, and Form: Selected E…

  • Narrative/Theory

    Brian Richardson, David H Richter et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1998

  • Are There Too Many Texts in This Class? A Review Essay

    Jeff Cupp, Hazard Adams et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1991

  • Pandora's Box Revisited

    David H RichterARTICLECritical Inquiry1974

  • "The Three Denouements of Jerzy Kosinski's "The Painted Bird

    David H Richter, David RichterARTICLEContemporary Literature1974Cited by: 1

    1Jerzy Kosinski, Painted Bird (New York: Modern Library, 1970). This, most recent edition, incorporates changes which did not appear in any previous made by the author (verso of first title page). As such, it is being used as copy-text for this paper. other two editions are clothbound first edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965) and trade paperbound edition (New York: Pocket Books, 1966). References to all editions will give year of pub…