Walter Scott

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.

Auteur

B.C. Southam, John O. Hayden

Contenu

General Editor's Preface, John O. Hayden; Note on the Text, John O. Hayden; Introduction, John O. Hayden; Part 101 The Lay of the Last Minstrel 1805; Chapter 1 Unsigned review, Literary Journal; Part 102 Marmion 1808; Chapter 2 Francis Jeffrey, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, Francis Jeffrey; Part 103 The Lady of the Lake 1810; Chapter 3 Unsigned review, British Critic; Chapter 4 Coleridge: a letter to Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Part 104 Rokeby 1813; Chapter 5 Unsigned review, British Review; Part 105 Waverley 1814; Chapter 6 Unsigned review, British Critic; Chapter 7 Jane Austen: a comment, Jane Austen; Chapter 8 Maria Edgeworth: a letter, Maria Edgeworth; Chapter 9 Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review, Francis Jeffrey; Part 106 The Field of Waterloo 1815; Chapter 10 Unsigned review, La Belle Assembleé; Part 107 Guy Mannering 1815; Chapter 11 Wordsworth on Scott's first novels, William Wordsworth; Chapter 12 Unsigned review, Augustan Review; Part 108 The Lord of the Isles 1815; Chapter 13 George Ellis, Quarterly Review, George Ellis; Part 109 The Antiquary 1816; Chapter 14 John Wilson Croker, Quarterly Review, John Wilson Croker; Chapter 15 Unsigned review, British Lady's Magazine; Part 110 The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality 1816; Chapter 16 Unsigned review, Critical Review; Chapter 17 Walter Scott: an unsigned review, Quarterly Review; Chapter 18 Thomas Love Peacock in a serious mood, Thomas Love Peacock; Part 111 Rob Roy 1818; Chapter 19 Unsigned review, European Magazine; Chapter 20 E.T. Channing, North American Review, E.T. Channing; Part 112 The Heart of Midlothian 1818; Chapter 21 Unsigned review, British Review; Chapter 22 Sydney Smith on the novels, Sydney Smith; Part 113 Ivanhoe 1820; Chapter 23 Unsigned notice, Monthly Magazine; Chapter 24 Coleridge on the novels, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Part 114 The Monastery 1820; Chapter 25 Unsigned review, Ladies' Monthly Museum; Part 115 Ivanhoe 1820; Chapter 26 Unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Chapter 27 A shepherd's tribute; Chapter 28 J.L. Adolphus on the works and their authorship, J.L. Adolphus; Chapter 29 Nassau Senior surveys the novels, Quarterly Review, Nassau Senior; Part 116 The Pirate 1821; Chapter 30 Unsigned review, Examiner; Part 117 The Fortunes of Nigel 1822; Chapter 31 From an unsigned review, General Weekly Register; Chapter 32 Scott: plot construction and the historical novel, Walter Scott; Part 118 Halidon Hill 1822; Chapter 33 Unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Part 119 Quentin Durward 1823; Chapter 34 Unsigned review, New Monthly Magazine; Chapter 35 Hazlitt: Scott and the spirit of the age, New Monthly Magazine, William Hazlitt; Part 120 Woodstock 1826; Chapter 36 From an unsigned review, Westminster Review; Chapter 37 Scott on his imitators, Walter Scott; Chapter 38 William Maginn: burlesque as criticism, William Maginn; Chapter 39 Heinrich Heine on Scott, Heinrich Heine; Chapter 40 Goethe on Scott, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Chapter 41 Macaulay: Scott as historical novelist, Thomas Babington Macaulay; Chapter 42 An early voice of dissent; Chapter 43 Stendhal on Scott, Le National, Marie-Henri Beyle; Chapter 44 Peacock: Mr. Chainmail and the enchanter, Thomas Love Peacock; Chapter 45 Sainte-Beuve: a French obituary, Le Globe, Charles Augustan Sainte-Beuve; Chapter 46 Bulwer-Lytton on historical romance, Fraser's Magazine; Chapter 47 Scott's intellectual qualities, Monthly Repository; Chapter 48 W.B.O.Peabody defends Scott's poetry; Chapter 49 Harriet Martineau: Scott as moral hero, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Harriet Martineau; Chapter 50 J.G. Lockhart on Scott, John Gibson Lockhart; Chapter 51 Carlyle: the amoral Scott, London and Westminster Review, Thomas Carlyle; Chapter 52 Balzac on Scott, Honoré de Balzac; Chapter 53 Cardinal Newman: Scott prepared the way, British Critic; Chapter 54 Belinsky: a Russian contemporary looks at Scott, Vissarion Belinsky; Chapter 55 Wordsworth's later views, William Wordsworth; Chapter 56 A question of history, Fraser's Magazine; Chapter 57 Walter Bagehot on Scott, National Review, Walter Bagehot; Chapter 58 H.A.Taine on Scott, H.A. Taine; Chapter 59 Henry James, North American Review, Henry James; Chapter 60 Mrs. Oliphant to the defence, Blackwood's Magazine; Chapter 61 Leslie Stephen: hours in a library with Scott, Cornhill Magazine; Chapter 62 A centenary view-Scott's characters, Athenaeum; Chapter 63 A late centenary view, London Quarterly; Chapter 64 Gladstone on The Bride of Lammermoor, Sydney Colvin; Chapter 65 R.L. Stevenson on Scott's place in literary history, Cornhill Magazine, R.L. Stevenson; Chapter 66 George Brandes: morality as drawback, George Brandes; Chapter 67 R.H.Hutton: Scott as man of letters, Richard H. Hutton; Chapter 68 Julia Wedgwood: 'the romantic reaction', Contemporary Review, R.H. Hutton; Chapter 69 Ruskin: 'Fiction-Fair and Foul', Nineteenth Century, John Ruskin; Chapter 70 Twain: Scott as warmonger, Mark Twain List of Reviews of Scott's Novels, John O. Hayden;