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Informationen zum Autor Ilana Snyder, Monash University Klappentext 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.. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part 1 Original Poetry, by Victor and Cazire; Chapter 1 Unsigned review, The Literary Panorama; Chapter 2 Unsigned notice, The British Critic; Chapter 3 Unsigned notice, under ‘Criticisms 1811,’ The Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1810–1811; Part 2 Zastrozzi, a Romance; Chapter 4 Unsigned notice, The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle; Chapter 5 Unsigned, review, The Critical Review and Annals of Literature; Part 3 St. Irvyne: or The Rosicrucian; Chapter 6 Unsigned notice, The British Critic; Chapter 7 Unsigned review, The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; Chapter 8 Unsigned letter, The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; Part 4 The Necessity of Atheism and a Declaration of Rights; Chapter 9 Robert Southey, from a letter to Grosvenor Bedford; Chapter 10 Unsigned review, The Brighton Magazine; Part 5 Queen Mab; Chapter 11 Review signed ‘F.,’ The Theological Inquirer, or Polemical Magazine; Chapter 12 Unsigned review, John Bull’s British Journal; Chapter 13 Unsigned review, The London Magazine and Theatrical Inquisitor; Chapter 14 Unsigned review, The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres; Chapter 15 Unsigned notice, The Monthly Magazine and British Register; Chapter 16 Unsigned notice, The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review; Chapter 17 Richard Carlile, review, The Republican; Chapter 18 William Bengo Collyer, from a review of Queen Mab in ‘Licentious Productions in High Life,’ The Investigator, or Quarterly Magazine; Chapter 19 Henry Crabb Robinson, diary entry; Part 6 Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude: and other poems; Chapter 20 Unsigned notice, The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal; Chapter 21 Unsigned review, The British Critic; Chapter 22 Unsigned review, The Eclectic Review; Chapter 23 Leigh Hunt on Shelley in ‘Young Poets,’ The Examiner; Chapter 24 John Gibson Lockhart, review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Part 7 The Revolt of Islam; Chapter 25 Leigh Hunt, The Examiner; Chapter 26 John Gibson Lockhart, unsigned review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 27 Unsigned review, The Monthly Review; Chapter 28 John Taylor Coleridge, review, The Quarterly Review; Chapter 29 Leigh Hunt, ‘The Quarterly Review and The Revolt of Islam’, The Examiner; Part 8 Rosalind and Helen; Chapter 30 Leigh Hunt, review, The Examiner; Chapter 31 Unsigned review, The Commercial Chronicle; Chapter 32 John Wilson, review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 33 Unsigned review, The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal; Part 9 The Cenci; Chapter 34 Unsigned notice, The Monthly Magazine, or British Register; Chapter 35 Unsigned review, The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences; Chapter 36 Unsigned review, The London Magazine and Monthly Critical and Dramatic Review; Ch...