ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |11 pages
Desperate Remedies March 1871
part |8 pages
Under The Greenwood Tree May 1872
part |5 pages
A Pair of Blue Eyes May 1873
part |27 pages
Far From The Madding Crowd November 1874
part |25 pages
The Return of The Native November 1878
part |22 pages
The Trumpet Major October 1880
part |4 pages
A Laodicean December 1881
part |31 pages
Two On A Tower October 1882
part |9 pages
The Mayor of Casterbridge May 1886
part |37 pages
The Woodlanders March 1887
part |71 pages
Tess of The D'Urbervilles November 1891
part |62 pages
Jude The Obscure November 1895
part |5 pages
The Well-Beloved March 1897
part |13 pages
Wessex Poems December 1898
part |10 pages
Poems of The Past And Present November 1901
part |26 pages
The Dynasts, Part First January 1904
part |63 pages
The Dynasts, Part Third February 1908
part |27 pages
Satires of Circumstance November 1914