About the Book
This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Table of Contents:
PREFACE INTRODUCTION NOTE ON THE TEXT The Spy (1821) 1 W.H. GARDINER, review in North American Review, July 1822 2 MARIA EDGEWORTH, letter, 1823 3 Unsigned notice, British Critic, July 1826 The Pioneers (1823) 4 Unsigned review, Port Folio, March 1823 5 Unsigned notice, British Critic, July 1826 The Pilot (1824) 6 Unsigned review, New-York Mirror, December 1824 Lionel Lincoln (1825) 7 Unsigned review, New-York Review and Atheneum, June 1825 8 Unsigned review, Literary Gazette, March 1825 9 JOHN NEAL on Fenimore Cooper (a) Article, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, October 1824 (b) Review of Lionel Lincoln, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, September 1825 (c) Review of The Last of the Mohicans, London Magazine, May 1826 The Last of the Mohicans (1826) 10 Unsigned review, New-York Review and Atheneum, March 1826 11 Unsigned review, United States Literary Gazette, May 1826 12 W.H.GARDINER, review, North American Review, July 1826 13 Unsigned review, Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, April 1826 The Prairie (1827) 14 Unsigned article, Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine, 1827 The Red Rover (1827) 15 The Paris Globe reviews Cooper (a) Two reviews by F.A.S., June, July 1827 (b) SAINTE-BEUVE, review of The Red Rover, April 1828 16 SCOTT reads The Red Rover and The Prairie, January 1828 17 Unsigned review, London Magazine, January 1828 18 GRENVILLE MELLEN, review, North American Review, July 1828 Notions of the Americans (1828) 19 Three unsigned British reviews (a) Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine, July 1828 (b) Literary Gazette, June 1828 (c) Edinburgh Review, June 1829 20 HAZLITT on American literature, Edinburgh Review, October 1829 21 LEIGH HUNT reviews Cooper (a) Review of The Pilot, Tatler, April 1831(b) Review of The Bravo, Tatler, October 1831 22 CHARLES SEALSFIELD on Cooper, New[1]York Mirror, February 1831 The Bravo (1831) 23 Unsigned notice, New-York Mirror, February 1832 24 W.H. PRESCOTT on Cooper (a) Article, North American Review, July 1832 (b) Letter to Cooper Memorial Committee, February 1852 The Headsman (1833) 25 Unsigned review, Metropolitan Magazine, October 1833 A Letter to his Countrymen (1834) 26 Unsigned review, New-England Magazine, August 1834 27 Edinburgh Review on Cooper, April 1835 The Monikins (1835) 28 Unsigned review, Knickerbocker Magazine, August 1835 Gleanings in Europe: England (1837) 29 J.G. LOCKHART, review, Quarterly Review, October 1837 Homeward Bound (1838) 30 FRANCIS BOWEN, review, North American Review, October 1838 Home as Found (1838) 31 Unsigned review, New-York Review, January 1839 The Pathfinder (1840) 32 V.G.BELINSKY on Cooper (a) Review of The Bravo, Moscow Observer, 1839 (b) Review of The Pathfinder, Notes of the Fatherland, 1841 (c) Article, Notes of the Fatherland, 1841 33 HONORÉ DE BALZAC, review, Paris Review, July 1840 Mercedes of Castile (1840) 34 EVERT DUYCKINCK, review, Arcturus, January 1841 The Deerslayer (1841) 35 Unsigned review, New-York Mirror, September 1841 Wyandotté (1843) 36 EDGAR ALLAN POE, review, Graham’s Magazine, November 1843 37 WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS on Cooper, Magnolia 1842 The Redskins (1846) 38 THACKERAY on Cooper (a) Review of The Redskins, Morning Chronicle, August 1846 (b) Burlesque titled ‘The Stars and Stripes’, Punch, October 1847 39 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A Fable for Critics, 1848 The Sea Lions (1849) 40 Unsigned review, Brownson’s Quarterly Review, July 1849 41 HERMAN MELVILLE on Cooper (a) Review of The Sea Lions, Literary World, April 1849 (b) Review of The Red Rover, Literary World, March 1850 (c) Letter to Cooper Memorial Committee, 1852 42 The Cooper Memorial (a) Letters written to the Cooper Memorial Committee, 1852 (b) WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, ‘Discourse on…Cooper’, 1852 43 FRANCIS PARKMAN on Cooper (a) Letter to Cooper Memorial Committee, 1852 (b) Article, North American Review, January 1852 44 GEORGE SAND on Cooper, 1856 45 BRET HARTE, Parody of Cooper, 1867 46 MARK TWAIN’S classic demolition of Cooper, North American Review, July 1895 47 JOSEPH CONRAD on Cooper, Outlook, June 1898
About the Author :
George Dekker, John P. Williams
