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
chapter |48 pages
Introduction
part |22 pages
Scenes of Clerical Life
part |38 pages
Adam Bede
part |59 pages
The Mill on the Floss
part |27 pages
Silas Marner
part |56 pages
Romola
part |35 pages
Felix Holt
chapter |5 pages
R. H. Hutton, Unsigned Review, Spectator
part |74 pages
Middlemarch
chapter |29 pages
R. H. Hutton, Unsigned Reviews, Spectator
chapter |14 pages
A, V. Dicey, Unsigned Review, Nation
part |145 pages
Daniel Deronda