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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |10 pages
The Lay of the Last Minstrel 1805
part |17 pages
Marmion 1808
part |10 pages
The Lady of the Lake 1810
part |5 pages
Rokeby 1813
part |18 pages
Waverley 1814
part |1 pages
The Field of Waterloo 1815
part |4 pages
Guy Mannering 1815
part |8 pages
The Lord of the Isles 1815
part |8 pages
The Antiquary 1816
part |40 pages
The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality 1816
part |19 pages
Rob Roy 1818
part |12 pages
The Heart of Midlothian 1818
part |8 pages
Ivanhoe 1820
part |3 pages
The Monastery 1820
part |68 pages
Ivanhoe 1820
part |5 pages
The Pirate 1821
part |8 pages
The Fortunes of Nigel 1822
part |3 pages
Halidon Hill 1822
part |18 pages
Quentin Durward 1823
part |250 pages
Woodstock 1826