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

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