ABSTRACT
First published in 1979, this collection of sixty-three essays on the novel drawn from ten periodicals demonstrates the primary concerns of those discussing the nature and purpose of prose fiction in the period from 1830 to 1850. The essays reflect what was thought and said about the art of fiction and reveal what journalists of these periodicals thought were the most urgent critical concerns facing the working reviewer.
Including an introduction which assesses the issues raised by the best periodicals at the time, this anthology is designed to provide students of Victorian fiction and critical theory with a collection of essays on the art of fiction in a convenient and durable form.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
"Cloudesley; a Tale. By the Author of Caleb Williams"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 27 (May 1830), 711–16
chapter |9 pages
"Mr. Edward Lytton Bulwer's Novels; and Remarks on Novel-Writing"
Fraser's Magazine 1 (June 1830), 509–32
chapter |11 pages
"Mrs. Gores Women as they Are; or, the Manners of the Day "
The Edinburgh Review 51 (July 1830), 444–62
chapter |16 pages
"Historical Romance. No. I. Sir Walter Scott and His Imitators"
Fraser's Magazine 5 (January 1832), 6– 19
chapter |11 pages
from “Mr. Bulwer's Novels— Eugene Aram”
The Edinburgh Review 55 (April 1832), 208– 19
chapter |17 pages
"British Novels and Romances"
from “Biographical and Critical History of the Literature of the Last Fifty Years” The Athenaeum (November 16 and 30, 1833), 773–77; 809– 12
chapter |11 pages
"Lockhart's Life of Scott"
The London and Westminster Review 28 (January 1838), 293–345
chapter |6 pages
“The Dowager; or, the New School for Scandal”
The Athenaeum (November 14, 1840), 899–900
chapter |5 pages
“The Siege of Florence, an Historical Romance”
The Athenaeum (November 28, 1840), 944–45
chapter |4 pages
“Charles Chesterfield; or, the Adventures of a Youth of Genius”
The Athenaeum (September 25, 1841), 740–41
chapter |7 pages
"The Monster-Misery of Literature. By a Mouse Born of the Mountain"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 55 (May 1844), 556–60
chapter |5 pages
“Ainsworth's St. James's; or, The Court of Queen Anne”
Fraser's Magazine 30 (December 1844), 740–42
chapter |3 pages
“Things Old and New, being a Sequel to ‘The Chronicles of Waltham'”
The Athenaeum (April 5, 1845), 332
chapter |18 pages
"The Historical Romance"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 58 (September 1845), 341 — 56
chapter |5 pages
“The Levite; or, Scenes Two Hundred Years Ago”
The Athenaeum (September 27, 1845), 934–36
chapter |7 pages
"About a Christmas Book. In a Letter from Michael Angelo Titmarsh to Oliver Yorke, Esq."
Fraser's Magazine 32 (December 1845), 744-48
chapter |18 pages
"A Grumble About the Christmas-Books"
Frascr's Magazine 35 (January 1847), 111 — 26
chapter |9 pages
“Walter Scott—Has History Gained by His Writings?"
Fraser's Magazine 36 (September 1847), 345–51
chapter |18 pages
"A Few Words About Novels— A Dialogue, in a Letter to Eusebius"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 64 (October 1848), 459–74
