About the Book
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 student and researcher to read the material themselves.
Table of Contents:
General Editor's Preface, B.C. Southam; Note on The Text, B.C. Southam; Introduction, B.C. Southam; Part 1 Sense and Sensibility, B.C. Southam; Chapter 1 Unsigned review, Critical Review, B.C. Southam; Chapter 2 Unsigned notice, British Critic, B.C. Southam; Part 2 Pride and Prejudice, B.C. Southam; Chapter 3 Unsigned notice, British Critic, B.C. Southam; Chapter 4 Unsigned review, Critical Review, B.C. Southam; Part 3 Mansfield Park, B.C. Southam; Chapter 5a Opinions of Mansfield Park: collected and transcribed by Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 5b Opinions of Mansfield Park recorded by Jane Austen in her correspondence 1814–16, B.C. Southam; Chapter 6 Miss Mitford on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Part 4 Emma, B.C. Southam; Chapter 7 Opinions of Emma: collected and transcribed by Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 8 Walter Scott, an unsigned review of Emma, Quarterly Review, B.C. Southam; Chapter 9 Unsigned notice, Literary Panorama, B.C. Southam; Chapter 10 Unsigned notice, Monthly Review, B.C. Southam; Chapter 11 Unsigned notice, British Critic, B.C. Southam; Chapter 12 Unsigned notice, Gentleman's Magazine, B.C. Southam; Chapter 13 Henry Austen: TheNorthanger Abbey and Persuasion, B.C. Southam; Chapter 14 Unsigned review, British Critic, B.C. Southam; Chapter 15 Henry Crabb Robinson on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 16 Whately on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 17 Scott on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 18 A Novelist of the Age, B.C. Southam; Chapter 19 Sober Sketches, B.C. Southam; Chapter 20 The Superior Novelist, B.C. Southam; Chapter 21 The Novels, B.C. Southam; Chapter 22 Some Views of the 1830s, B.C. Southam; Chapter 23 Macready on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 24 A Poetic Tribute, B.C. Southam; Chapter 25 Jane Austen and Harriet Martineau, B.C. Southam; Chapter 26 Macaulay on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 27 G.H. Lewes on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 28 Charlotte Brontë on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 29 An American View, B.C. Southam; Chapter 30 Lewes: Jane Austen as a ‘Prose Shakespeare’, B.C. Southam; Chapter 31 The mid-century view, B.C. Southam; Chapter 32 Lewes: Jane Austen the ‘artist’, B.C. Southam; Chapter 33 Jane Austen in America, B.C. Southam; Chapter 34 Unelevating Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 35 Unelevating Jane Austen again, B.C. Southam; Chapter 36 Lewes: The great appraisal, B.C. Southam; Chapter 37 W.F. Pollock on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 38 Lewes: a note on Jane Austen's artistic economy, B.C. Southam; Chapter 39 Julia Kavanagh on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 40 Jane Austen and George Eliot, B.C. Southam; Chapter 41 The Victorian ‘society’ view, B.C. Southam; Chapter 42 Mrs. Oliphant on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 43 The Victorian ‘historical’ View, B.C. Southam; Chapter 44 Richard Simpson on Jane Austen, B.C. Southam; Chapter 45 Unsigned notice of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, B.C. Southam Early Editions of the Novels of Jane Austen, B.C. Southam, B.C. Southam;
