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 |72 pages
The Early Works from Pickwick to Nickleby
chapter |1 pages
From an unsigned review of Sketches by Boz, Metropolitan Magazine
chapter |1 pages
Unsigned review of Pickwick Papers Nos. I – IX, the Athenaeum
chapter |2 pages
From an unsigned article, ‘Some Thoughts on Arch-Waggery, and in especial, on the Genius of “Boz” ', Court Magazine
chapter |2 pages
[John Forster], from an unsigned review of Pickwick Papers, No. XV, Examiner
chapter |1 pages
W. M. Thackeray on Pickwick Papers, in The Paris Sketch Book
chapter |2 pages
C. S. Calverley, from ‘An Examination Paper: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'
chapter |2 pages
From an unsigned review of Oliver Twist in the Spectator
chapter |2 pages
[W. M. Thackeray], from ‘Going to see a man hanged', Fraser's Magazine
chapter |4 pages
[John Forster], from an unsigned review of Nicholas Nickleby, Examiner
chapter |3 pages
[Charles Buller], from ‘The Works of Dickens', London and Westminster Review
chapter |5 pages
[Abraham Hayward?], from an unsigned review of Pickwick Nos. I–XVII, and Sketches by Boz, in the Quarterly Review
chapter |5 pages
[G. H. Lewes?], from a review of Sketches, Pickwick, and Oliver Twist, in the National Magazine and Monthly Critic
chapter |2 pages
From an unsigned review, ‘Boz and his Nicholas Nickleby', Spectator
chapter |5 pages
[Thomas Henry Lister], from a review of Sketches (1st and 2nd Series), Pickwick, Nickleby, and Oliver Twist, Edinburgh Review
chapter |4 pages
From an unsigned notice, ‘Charles Dickens and his Works,' Fraser's Magazine
part |28 pages
Master Humphrey's Clock
chapter |4 pages
[Thomas Hood], from an unsigned review of Master Humphrey's Clock, Vol. I, in the Athenaeum
chapter |2 pages
From an unsigned article, ‘The Reception of Mr Dickens', United States Magazine and Democratic Review
part |26 pages
American Notes and Pictures from Italy
chapter |5 pages
[James Spedding], from a review in the Edinburgh Review
chapter |5 pages
[Cornelius C. Felton], from a review in the North American Review
chapter |3 pages
[John Wilson Croker], from an unsigned review, Quarterly Review
part |42 pages
The Christmas Books
chapter |2 pages
[W. M. Thackeray], from ‘A Box of Novels', Fraser's Magazine
chapter |3 pages
From a review of R. H. Horne's A New Spirit of the Age, Westminster Review
chapter |1 pages
From an unsigned review of The Chimes, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
chapter |3 pages
From an unsigned review of The Chimes, Christian Remembrancer
chapter |2 pages
[John Forster], from a review of The Chimes, Edinburgh Review
chapter |3 pages
From an unsigned article, ‘Boz versus Dickens', Parker's London Magazine
chapter |2 pages
‘Bon Gaultier' [Theodore Martin], from ‘Nights in the Martello', Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine
chapter |2 pages
From an unsigned review of The Cricket on the Hearth, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
chapter |1 pages
From an unsigned review of The Cricket on the Hearth, Macphail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal
chapter |1 pages
From an unsigned review of The Battle of Life, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
chapter |2 pages
[Coventry Patmore?], from a review, ‘Popular Serial Fiction', North British Review
chapter |2 pages
From an unsigned review of The Haunted Man, Macphail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal
part |28 pages
Martin Chuzzlewit
chapter |5 pages
[Thomas Cleghorn?], from ‘Writings of Charles Dickens', North British Review
chapter |4 pages
[W. E. Aytoun], from ‘Advice to an Intending Serialist', Blackwood's Magazine
part |31 pages
Dombey and Son
chapter |5 pages
From an unsigned article, ‘Inquest on the late Master Paul Dombey', The Man in the Moon
chapter |2 pages
[John Eagles], from ‘A Few Words about Novels—a Dialogue', Blackwood's Magazine
chapter |3 pages
[Edwin P. Whipple], from ‘Novels and Novelists: Charles Dickens', North American Review
part |32 pages
David Copperfield
chapter |4 pages
From an unsigned article, ‘Charles Dickens and David Copperfield', Fraser's Magazine
chapter |9 pages
[David Masson], from ‘Pendennis and Copperfield: Thackeray and Dickens', North British Review
chapter |3 pages
Samuel Phillips, from ‘David Copperfield and Arthur Pendennis', The Times
chapter |3 pages
From an unsigned review, ‘David Copperfield and Pendennis', Prospective Review
part |34 pages
Bleak House
chapter |3 pages
[Henry Fothergill Chorley], from a review in the Athenaeum
chapter |3 pages
[James Augustine Stothert ], from ‘Living Novelists', The Rambler
chapter |2 pages
Ruskin on the mortality rate: from ‘Fiction, Fair and Foul', Nineteenth Century
part |52 pages
Hard Times
chapter |5 pages
Edwin P. Whipple, from an essay on Hard Times, in the Atlantic Monthly
chapter |8 pages
Mrs Oliphant, from ‘Charles Dickens', Blackwood's Magazine
chapter |5 pages
Hippolyte Taine, from his ‘Charles Dickens: son talent et ses œuvres,' Revue des deux Mondes
chapter |1 pages
[George Eliot], from ‘The Natural History of German Life', Westminster Review
chapter |5 pages
[James Fitzjames Stephen], from ‘Mr Dickens as a Politician', Saturday Review
part |45 pages
Little Dorrit
chapter |4 pages
[E. B. Hamley], from ‘Remonstrance with Dickens', Blackwood's Magazine
chapter |7 pages
[James Fitzjames Stephen], from ‘The Licence of Modern Novelists', Edinburgh Review
chapter |3 pages
John Hollingshead, from ‘Mr Dickens and his Critics', The Train
chapter |4 pages
John Cordy Jeaffreson, from his Novels and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria
chapter |3 pages
From an unsigned review of the Library Edition of the Works, Saturday Review
chapter |3 pages
Francis Jacox attacks the Saturday Review, New Monthly Magazine
part |20 pages
The Weekly Periodicals
chapter |2 pages
[Samuel Lucas], from a review of The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, The Times
chapter |3 pages
From an unsigned review of A House to Let, Saturday Review
chapter |4 pages
[James Fitzjames Stephen?], from an unsigned review of The Uncommercial Traveller, Saturday Review
chapter |2 pages
From an unsigned review of Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings, Saturday Review
chapter |2 pages
[E. S. Dallas], from a review of Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, The Times
chapter |2 pages
From an unsigned review of Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, Saturday Review
part |6 pages
A Tale of Two Cities
part |24 pages
Great Expectations
chapter |2 pages
[John Moore Capes and J. E. E. D. Acton], from a review in the Rambler
chapter |3 pages
[Mrs Margaret Oliphant], from ‘Sensational Novels', Blackwood's Magazine
chapter |6 pages
[Justin McCarthy], from ‘Modern Novelists: Charles Dickens', Westminster Review
part |45 pages
Our Mutual Friend
chapter |2 pages
From an unsigned review, ‘Mr Dickens's Romance of a Dust-heap', Eclectic and Congregational Review
chapter |7 pages
[Edwin P. Whipple], from ‘The Genius of Dickens', Atlantic Monthly
chapter |2 pages
George Augustus Sala, from ‘On the “Sensational” in Literature and Art', Belgravia
part |42 pages
Obituary Tributes, 1870
chapter |3 pages
From an unsigned article, ‘The Death of Mr Dickens', Saturday Review
chapter |3 pages
From an unsigned article, ‘The late Charles Dickens', Illustrated London News
chapter |4 pages
[R. H. Hutton], from ‘The Genius of Dickens', the Spectator
chapter |2 pages
A. P. Stanley, from a sermon in Westminster Abbey
chapter |3 pages
From an unsigned notice, ‘Charles Dickens', Fraser's Magazine
part |23 pages
Edwin Drood
chapter |3 pages
From an unsigned article, ‘Two English Novelists: Dickens and Thackeray', Dublin Review
chapter |3 pages
From an unsigned article, ‘Dickens', London Quarterly Review
part |26 pages
Forster's Life of Dickens
chapter |7 pages
G. H. Lewes, from a review of Vol. I of Forster's Life, Fortnightly Review
chapter |2 pages
Robert Buchanan, ‘The “Good Genie” of Fiction: Thoughts while reading Forster's Life of Charles Dickens', St Paul’s Magazine
chapter |2 pages
[William Dean Howells], from an unsigned review of Vol. II, Atlantic Monthly
chapter |3 pages
[R. H. Hutton], from a review of Vol. III of Forster's Life, the Spectator
part |23 pages
The Letters of Charles Dickens