What is the novel?

The Novel Defined (About this list: a paragraph describing the thinking behind this list)

Primary Texts:

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.(1813, England)   

Benjamin Constant. Adolphe.     (1816, France)

James Fenimore Cooper. Last of theMohicans. (1826, United States)

Fyodor Dostoevsky. *The BrothersKaramazov. (1880, Russia)

Benito Pérez Galdós. La desheredada. (1881, Spain)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Sorrows ofYoung Werther. (1774, Germany)

Thomas Hardy. Return of the Native.     (1878, United Kingdom)

Nathaniel Hawthorne. *The ScarletLetter. (1850, United States)

Emilia Pardo Bazán. La Tribuna. (1883, Spain)

Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped.     (1886, United Kingdom)   

Secondary Texts:

Erich Auerbach. Chapters on Cervantes, Stendhal, and Proust in Mimesis.
Franco Moretti. The Way of theWorld.
Ian Watt. The Rise of the Novel.