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 the material themselves.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |25 pages
Introduction
chapter |1 pages
Note on the Text
part |4 pages
The Author's Farce
chapter 1|1 pages
John Perceval, first Earl of Egmont, from diary entry
chapter 2|2 pages
[John Martyn] The Grub-street Journal No. 23
chapter 3|1 pages
The Grub-street Journal No 98
part |10 pages
The Modern Husband
part |4 pages
The Covent-Garden Tragedy
part |23 pages
The Modern Husband the Covent-Garden Tragedy the Old Debauchees 1 June 1732
part |4 pages
The Miser 17 February 1732-3
part |2 pages
Tom Thumb and the Early Plays
chapter 17|1 pages
Jonathan Swift, On Poetry: A Rapsody
chapter 18|1 pages
Jonathan Swift, in conversation
chapter 19|1 pages
From The Connoisseur. A Satire on the Modern Men of Taste
part |1 pages
Fielding's ‘Industry’
part |2 pages
An Old Man Taught Wisdom: Or, the Virgin Unmask'd 17 January 1734-5
part |21 pages
Pasquin 5 March 1735-6
part |11 pages
Pasquin the Historical Register 21 March 1736-7
part |2 pages
Fielding and the Licensing Act
chapter 33|1 pages
From Common Sense: or, the Englishman's Journal
part |3 pages
Tom Thumb
chapter 34|3 pages
From Observations on the Present Taste for Poetry
part |2 pages
Fielding and the Licensing Act
part |2 pages
Shamela
chapter 38|1 pages
Thomas Dampier, letter
part |2 pages
Joseph Andrews
chapter 39|1 pages
Dr. George Cheyne, letter
chapter 40|1 pages
Thomas Gray, letter
part |1 pages
Tom Thumb
chapter 41|1 pages
William Shenstone, letter
part |1 pages
Joseph Andrews
chapter 42|1 pages
Catherine Talbot, letter
chapter 43|1 pages
William Shenstone, letter
part |1 pages
Joseph Andrews in France
chapter 44|1 pages
Andrew Michael (André Michel) Ramsay, letter
part |3 pages
Joseph Andrews
chapter 45|1 pages
Elizabeth Carter, letter
chapter 47|1 pages
Charles Macklin, from the Prologue to The Wedding Day
part |17 pages
Joseph Andrews in France
chapter 48|1 pages
[Pierre François Guyot Desfontaines], review of Joseph Andrews 1
chapter 49|9 pages
[Pierre François Guyot Desfontaines] ‘Lettre d'une Dame Angloise …’ 1
chapter 50|6 pages
Unsigned review of Desfontaines' French translation of Joseph Andrews
part |1 pages
Joseph Andrews
chapter 51|1 pages
[John Mottley (?)], ‘Fielding’
part |1 pages
Tom Jones
chapter 52|1 pages
Thomas Birch, letter
part |2 pages
Joseph Andrews and the Jacobite's Journal
chapter 54|1 pages
‘Epitaph’, Old England
part |12 pages
Tom Jones
chapter 55|1 pages
Lady Frances Hertford, Duchess of Somerset, letter
chapter 56|1 pages
Thomas Birch, letter
chapter 58|4 pages
From The Fan
part |2 pages
Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews
chapter 59|1 pages
William Shenstone, letter
chapter 60|1 pages
Lady Henrietta Luxborough, letter
part |17 pages
Tom Jones
chapter 61|1 pages
The Gentleman's Magazine
chapter 62|2 pages
Captain Lewis Thomas, letter
chapter 63|1 pages
William Shenstone, letter
chapter 64|1 pages
Joseph Spence, letter
chapter 65|1 pages
Catherine Talbot, letter
chapter 67|1 pages
Elizabeth Carter, letter
chapter 68|1 pages
Duchess of Bedford, letter
chapter 69|1 pages
From an unsigned letter
chapter 70|1 pages
Solomon Lowe, letter
chapter 71|1 pages
Samuel Richardson, letter
chapter 72|2 pages
Astraea and Minerva Hill, letter
chapter 73|2 pages
Samuel Richardson, letter
chapter 74|2 pages
Samuel Richardson, letter
part |1 pages
Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones
part |2 pages
Tom Jones
part |1 pages
Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones
chapter 77|1 pages
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter
part |4 pages
Tom Jones
chapter 78|1 pages
Tobias Smollett, letter
chapter 79|1 pages
[Lady Dorothy Bradshaigh], letter
part |1 pages
Works to 1750
chapter 81|1 pages
Samuel Richardson, letter
part |30 pages
Tom Jones
chapter 82|26 pages
‘Orbilius’, from An Examen of the History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
chapter 84|1 pages
[Lady Dorothy Bradshaigh], letter
chapter 85|2 pages
Samuel Richardson, letter
part |2 pages
Joseph Andrews
chapter 86|2 pages
From The Student, or, The Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany
part |4 pages
Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones
chapter 87|3 pages
From The History of Charlotte Summers, the Fortunate Parish Girl
chapter 88|1 pages
Lady Dorothy Bradshaigh, letter
part |7 pages
Tom Jones in France
chapter 89|2 pages
Pierre Antoine de la Place, letter
chapter 90|3 pages
Unsigned review of Histoire de Tom Jones, The Gentleman's Magazine
chapter 91|2 pages
Friedrich Melchior, Baron Grimm
part |9 pages
Tom Jones
chapter 92|5 pages
Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 4
chapter 93|3 pages
‘Eubulus’, Old England
chapter 95|1 pages
Samuel Richardson, letter
part |8 pages
An Enquiry into The Causes of The Late Increase of Robbers
chapter 96|7 pages
Unsigned Review, The Monthly Review
chapter 97|1 pages
Lady Henrietta Luxborough, letter
part |14 pages
Tom Jones
part |9 pages
Fielding's ‘New Species of Writing’
chapter 99|9 pages
[Francis Coventry], from An Essay on the New Species of Writing …
part |4 pages
The Enquiry, Tom Jones, Etc.
chapter 100|4 pages
From The Magazine of Magazines
part |1 pages
Tom Jones
chapter 101|1 pages
‘On the incomparable History of Tom Jones’, The Ladies Magazine
part |7 pages
Tom Jones in France
chapter 102|7 pages
[Élie C. Fréron], review
part |3 pages
Fielding's ‘New Species of Writing’
part |1 pages
The Scurrilous Plays of the 1730s
chapter 105|1 pages
Eliza Haywood, from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
part |48 pages
Amelia
chapter 106|1 pages
From Old England
chapter 107|1 pages
Thomas Edwards, letter
chapter 108|16 pages
Unsigned review, The London Magazine
chapter 109|5 pages
[John Cleland], review, The Monthly Review
chapter 110|2 pages
Pierre Clément
chapter 111|1 pages
Lady Orrery, letter
chapter 112|1 pages
‘C.D., F.R.S.’, The London Evening Post
chapter 113|1 pages
Mary Granville (Pendarves) Delany, letter
chapter 114|4 pages
[Henry Fielding], The Covent-Garden Journal
chapter 115|1 pages
Sarah Chapone, letter
chapter 116|1 pages
Anne Donnellan, letter
chapter 117|1 pages
Thomas Edwards, letter
chapter 118|4 pages
[Bonnell Thornton], Have at You All: or The Drury-Lane Journal
chapter 119|8 pages
[Matthew Maty], review, Journal Britannique 1
chapter 120|1 pages
[William Kenrick], from Fun: a Parodi-tragi-comical Satire
part |3 pages
Tom Jones and Amelia
chapter 121|1 pages
Samuel Richardson, letter
chapter 122|1 pages
Samuel Richardson, letter
chapter 123|1 pages
Samuel Richardson, letter
part |1 pages
The Novels of Richardson and Fielding
chapter 124|1 pages
From the Preface to The Adventures of a Valet
part |7 pages
The Covent-Garden Journal
chapter 125|3 pages
[Bonnell Thornton], from Have at You All: or The Drury-Lane Journal
chapter 126|2 pages
[Bonnell Thornton], from Have at You All: or The Drury-Lane Journal
chapter 127|2 pages
[Bonnell Thornton], from Have at You All: or The Drury-Lane Journal
part |8 pages
Amelia
chapter 128|1 pages
Catherine Talbot, letter
chapter 129|1 pages
Elizabeth Carter, letter
chapter 132|1 pages
Catherine Talbot, letter
chapter 133|2 pages
Sarah Chapone, letter
part |4 pages
Fielding's ‘New Species of Writing’
chapter 134|4 pages
Francis Coventry, Epistle Dedicatory …
part |2 pages
Fielding's Art
chapter 135|1 pages
[Arthur Murphy], letter 1753
chapter 136|1 pages
[Christopher Smart], from The Hiiliad
part |1 pages
Tom Jones
chapter 137|1 pages
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, recalled by Lady Louisa Stuart
part |2 pages
Elizabeth Canning and Tom Jones
chapter 138|2 pages
Allan Ramsay, A Letter to the Right Honourable …
part |1 pages
The Novels of Richardson and Fielding
chapter 139|1 pages
William Whitehead, The World No. 19
part |1 pages
Amelia and the Domestic Novel
chapter 140|1 pages
Friedrich Melchior, Baron Grimm, letter
part |4 pages
The Novels of Richardson and Fielding
chapter 141|1 pages
[Jane Collier], from An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
chapter 142|1 pages
Miss Smythies of Colchester From The Stage-Coach
chapter 143|2 pages
From. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison …
part |11 pages
Humour and Ridicule in Fielding
part |8 pages
The Novels
chapter 149|1 pages
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter
chapter 150|7 pages
‘From Joseph Addison to the Author of Tom Jones’
part |1 pages
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
chapter 151|1 pages
Unsigned notice, The London Magazine
part |1 pages
The Journal and Answer to Bolingbroke
part |7 pages
The Journal
chapter 153|1 pages
Unsigned notice, The Monthly Review
chapter 154|1 pages
Horace Walpole, letter
chapter 155|2 pages
Unsigned letter
chapter 156|1 pages
Thomas Edwards, letter
chapter 157|1 pages
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter
chapter 158|1 pages
Margaret Collier, letter
part |1 pages
Fielding's Understanding of Human Nature
chapter 159|1 pages
Samuel Richardson, letter
part |35 pages
Fielding's Art
chapter 160|2 pages
[Arthur Murphy], The Literary Magazine No. ii
chapter 161|1 pages
Thomas Barrett Lennard, twenty-sixth Baron Dacre, letter
chapter 162|1 pages
Horace Walpole
chapter 163|1 pages
Oliver Goldsmith, The Bee
chapter 164|1 pages
[Elizabeth Montagu], ‘Plutarch, Charon, and a modern Bookseller’
chapter 165|1 pages
Tobias Smollett, from Continuation of the Complete History of England
chapter 166|28 pages
Arthur Murphy, Essay
part |3 pages
Amelia in France
chapter 167|1 pages
Friedrich Melchior, Baron Grimm, letter
chapter 168|2 pages
Unsigned review, L'Année littéraire
part |1 pages
Jonathan Wild in France
chapter 169|1 pages
Unsigned review, L'Année littéraire
part |1 pages
Fielding's Art
chapter 170|1 pages
Christopher Smart ‘Epitaph on Henry Fielding, Esq.’
part |1 pages
The Fathers
chapter 171|1 pages
Unsigned Notice, The St. James's Chronicle
part |9 pages
The Survivors
