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"Founded in Fiction is as much an intellectual history as a literary one: Koenigs writes with precision and authority about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American print culture, religious debates, transatlantic literary relations, political philosophy, and periodical culture, elegantly interweaving this rich array of cultural materials with the complex rhetorical debates taking place in fiction. . . . Koenigs synthesizes the many explanations and defenses of fiction into a convincing, elegant argument about knowledge making in the early United States."鈥擲i芒n Silyn Roberts, Nineteenth-Century Literature

"Thomas Koenigs navigates smoothly through a wealth of texts. . . adding to our understanding of American literary history, plunging us into the mindset of the time, all the while giving us an insight into the periodical press and literary criticism of the antebellum period and taking us through the political, social, aesthetic, and literary debates of a fascinating and far too long underestimated period."鈥擯auline Pilote, Transatlantica

"[A] rich and fascinating history of fictionality, illuminating the complexity of early experimentation while tracing its contributions to the aesthetic and cultural dominance of what came to be known as the American novel. . . . Essential."鈥�Choice Reviews

"This study is an important reconsideration of early American fiction that consistently demonstrates the sophisticated self-consciousness with which various American writers approached the troubling yet dynamic concept of fictionality. . . . Deeply researched and thoughtfully argued."鈥擯hilip Gould, American Literary History

"Founded in Fiction heightens our awareness of the exact processes of fiction’s meaning-making and helpfully extends literary criticism’s unsettling of literariness as a value taken for granted."鈥擷ine Yao, Eighteenth-Century Fiction

"Offers one of the most fascinating reinterpretations of the early US novel."鈥擩oseph Rezek, Early American Literature

"A rewarding and useful field guide to fiction."鈥擡lizabeth Hewitt, Genre

"Literary historians . . . print culture scholars and genre studies folks . . . will all be delighted by the contribution Koenigs is making to their fields. The book’s merits are many, and it is sure to be well received."鈥擡lizabeth Dill, Eighteenth-Century Studies

"Founded in Fiction offers an important new account of the early American novel that persuasively describes the shifting and contested views of fictionality animating the emergent literary culture of the United States.”—Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame

“By reappraising the ‘rise’ of the American novel and the critical tendency to retrospectively read a whole host of fictional narratives as novels even when they challenge that classification, Thomas Koenigs’s ambitious, thoroughly researched, and lucidly written book makes a significant contribution to American literary studies and book history.”—Rochelle Raineri Zuck, Iowa State University

“Astutely resisting a backward reading of ante- and postbellum literary aesthetic values onto earlier texts, Founded in Fiction traces the ‘novelization’ of American fiction: how diverse kinds of texts came to be consolidated under the generic name of ‘novel,’ a process that obscured the pedagogical and political uses imagined for early fiction and the different reading practices in which authors hoped to engage readers. Koenigs recovers a variety of fictions and inspires readers to embrace the strangeness of novels that contest their own fictionality.”—Karen Weyler, author of Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America