GENERAL
René Wellek and Austin Warren, Theory of Literature (Harmondsworth, 1973; orig. 1949), ch. 9, ‘Literature and Society’
Robert Escarpit, Sociologie de la littérature (Paris, 1958); expanded and revised as Das Buch und der Leser: Entwurf einer Literatursoziologie (Köln, 1961); English translation as The Sociology of Literature, tr. Ernest Pick, 2nd ed. (London, 1971)
Levin Ludwig Schücking, Soziologie der literarischen Geschmacksbildung, 3rd ed. (Bern, 1961); English translation as The Sociology of Literary Taste, tr. E. W. Dickes (London, 1998) (see also F. R. Leavis, ‘Literature and Society’ and ‘The Sociology of Literature’, in Leavis, The Common Pursuit (London, 1952))
Lucien Goldmann, Pour une sociologie du roman (Paris, 1964); English translation as Towards a Sociology of the Novel, tr. Alan Sheridan (London, 1975)
Georg Lukács, Schriften zur Literatursoziologie, ed. Peter Ludz, 3rd ed. (Neuwied, 1968)
Wege der Literatursoziologie, ed. Hans Norbert Fügen (Neuwied, 1968)
Hans Norbert Fügen, Die Hauptrichtungen der Literatursoziologie und ihre Methoden, 5th ed. (Bonn, 1971)
Sociology of Literature and Drama: Selected Readings, ed. Elizabeth and Tom Burns (Harmondsworth, 1973)
Joachim Bark, Literatursoziologie, 2 vols (Stuttgart, 1974)
Jürgen Scharfschwerdt, Grundprobleme der Literatursoziologie: Ein wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Überblick (Stuttgart, 1977)
Jeffrey L. Sammons, Literary Sociology and Practical Criticism: An Inquiry (Bloomington, 1977)
John Hall, The Sociology of Literature (London, 1979)
J. P. Ward, Poetry and the Sociological Idea (Brighton, 1981)
Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (London, 1981)
P.N. Furbank, Unholy Pleasure: The Idea of Social Class (Oxford, 1986)
PARTICULAR PERIODS AND COUNTRIES
Franco Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (London, 1998)
Haydn Mason, French Writers and Their Society 1715-1800 (London, 1982)
Alain Viala, Naissance de l’écrivain: sociologie de la littérature à l’âge classique (Paris, 1985)
Joachim Bumke, Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages, tr. Thomas Dunlap (Berkeley, 1991)
Pamela Currie, Literature as Social Action: Modernist and Traditionalist Narratives in Germany in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Columbia, SC, 1995)
Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, ed. Horst Albert Glaser, 10 vols (Reinbek, 1980-1997)