The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels.
The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.
Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Autorentext
Philip Collins
Zusammenfassung
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels.The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Inhalt
Introduction; Part 1 The Early Works from Pickwick to Nickleby; Chapter 1 From an unsigned review of Sketches by Boz, Metropolitan Magazine; Chapter 2 From unsigned reviews of Pickwick Papers, Metropolitan Magazine; Chapter 3 Unsigned review of Pickwick Papers Nos. I - IX, the Athenaeum; Chapter 4 From an unsigned article, 'Some Thoughts on Arch-Waggery, and in especial, on the Genius of "Boz" ', Court Magazine; Chapter 5 Miss Mary Russell Mitford on Pickwick Papers; Chapter 6, John Forster; , from an unsigned review of Pickwick Papers, No. XV, Examiner; Chapter 7 W. M. Thackeray on Pickwick Papers, in The Paris Sketch Book; Chapter 8 C. S. Calverley, from 'An Examination Paper: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'; Chapter 9 '[Arthur Locker?; ' from 'Charles Dickens' Graphic; Chapter 10 From an unsigned review of Oliver Twist in the Spectator; Chapter 11 Queen Victoria, from her diaries; Chapter 12, W. M. Thackeray; , from 'Going to see a man hanged', Fraser's Magazine; Chapter 13 From an unsigned article, 'Literary Recipes', Punch; Chapter 14, John Forster; , from an unsigned review of Nicholas Nickleby, Examiner; Chapter 15, Charles Buller; , from 'The Works of Dickens', London and Westminster Review; Chapter 16, Abraham Hayward?; , from an unsigned review of Pickwick Nos. I-XVII, and Sketches by Boz, in the Quarterly Review; Chapter 17, G. H. Lewes?; , from a review of Sketches, Pickwick, and Oliver Twist, in the National Magazine and Monthly Critic; Chapter 18 From an unsigned review, 'Boz and his Nicholas Nickleby', Spectator; Chapter 19, Thomas Henry Lister; , from a review of Sketches (1st and 2nd Series), Pickwick, Nickleby, and Oliver Twist, Edinburgh Review; Chapter 20 Unsigned notice, 'Loose Thoughts', Fraser's Magazine; Chapter 21 From an unsigned review of Oliver Twist, Literary Gazette; Chapter 22, Richard Ford; , from, an unsigned review, Quarterly Review; Chapter 23 From an unsigned notice, 'Charles Dickens and his Works,' Fraser's Magazine; Part 2 Master Humphrey's Clock; Chapter 24 From unsigned reviews, Metropolitan Magazine 1840-1; Chapter 25, Thomas Hood; , from an unsigned review of Master Humphrey's Clock, Vol. I, in the Athenaeum; Chapter 26 W. C. Macready, in his diaries and in a letter to Dickens; Chapter 27 John Ruskin on The Old Curiosity Shop; Chapter 28 Henry Crabb Robinson on Barnaby Rudge in his diaries; Chapter 29, Thomas Hood; , from a review of Barnaby Rudge, Athenaeum; Chapter 30 Edgar Allan Poe, from a review in Graham's Magazine; Chapter 31 Dickens's Reception in America; Chapter 32 From an unsigned article, 'The Reception of Mr Dickens', United States Magazine and Democratic Review; Part 3 American Notes and Pictures from Italy; Chapter 33, Samuel Warren; , from a review in Blackwood's Magazine; Chapter 34, James Spedding; , from a review in the Edinburgh Review; Chapter 35, Cornelius C. Felton; , from a review in the North American Review; Chapter 36, John Wilson Croker; , from an unsigned review, Quarterly Review; Chapter 37 From an unsigned review of Pictures from Italy, The Times; Chapter 38 From an unsigned review, Gentleman's Magazine; Part 4 The Christmas Books; Chapter 39 Lord Jeffrey on A Christmas Carol, in a letter to Dickens; Chapter 40, W. M. Thackeray; , from 'A Box of Novels', Fraser's Magazine; Chapter 41 From a review of R. H. Horne's A New Spirit of the Age, Westminster Review; Chapter 42 From an unsigned review of The Chimes, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction; Chapter 43 From an unsigned review of The Chimes, The Times; Chapter 44 From an unsigned article, 'A Christmas Garland', The Northern Star; Chapter 45 From an unsigned review of The Chimes, Christian Remembrancer; Chapter 46, John Forster; , from a review of The Chimes, Edinburgh Review; Chapter 47 From an unsigned review of The Chimes, the Economist; Chapter 48 From an unsigned article, 'Boz versus Dickens', Parker's London Magazine; Chapter 49 'Bon Gaultier', Theodore Martin; , from 'Nights in the Martello', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 50 From an unsigned review of The Cricket on the Hearth, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal; Chapter 51 From an unsigned review of The Cricket on the Hearth, Macphail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal; Chapter 52 From an unsigned review of The Battle of Life, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 53, Coventry Patmore?; , from a review, 'Popular Serial Fiction', North British Review; Chapter 54 From an unsigned review of The Haunted Man, Macphail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal; Part 5 Martin Chuzzlewit; Chapter 55, John Forster; , from an unsigned review, Examiner; Chapter 56, Thomas Cleghorn?; , from 'Writings of Charles Dickens', North British Review; Chapter 57 From an unsigned article, National Review; Chapter 58 R. H. Horne, from his The New Spirit of the Age; Chapter 59 Thomas Carlyle on Dickens; Chapter 60 William Howitt, from 'Charles Dickens', The People's Journal; Chapter 61, W. E. Aytoun; , from 'Advice to an Intending Serialist', Blackwood's Magazine; Part 6 Dombey and Son; Chapter 62 From an unsigned review of No. I, the Economist; Chapter 63 Lord Jeffrey, from letters to Dickens; Chapter 64 Edward Fitzgerald, in a letter to Thackeray January; Chapter 65 From an unsigned article, 'Inquest on the late Master Paul Dombey', The Man in the Moon; Chapter 66 From a review (signed 'H') of Nos. I-VI, Westminster Review; Chapter 67, Charles Kent; , from a review in the Sun; Chapter 68, John Eagles; , from 'A Few Words about Novels-a Dialogue', Blackwood's Magazine; Chapter 69, John Forster; , from an unsigned review, Examiner; Chapter 70 Harriet Martineau on Dickens; Chapter 71, Edwin P. Whipple; , from 'Novels and Novelists: Charles Dickens', North American Review; Part 7 David Copperfield; Chapter …