Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission brings together eighteen UK academics working in both the English and Continental (French, Spanish, Italian, Neo-Latin, Byzantine) traditions. The members of the group will meet in two workshops during the academic year to consider the social, cultural, and historical aspects of seventeenth-century prose fiction, with the intention of uncovering the roots of the transnational exchanges that led to the development of new forms of fiction. The project’s goal is to produce a volume of collected papers that will examine the changes in the conceptualization and usage of prose forms at a critical moment in the history of modern fiction, and thus to contribute to a more comprehensive history of the early novel.