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COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN NCLC, VOLUME 106, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, v. XLIII, January, 1966. Reproduced by permission. © copyright 1966 Liverpool University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Review, v. 258, June, 1991. Reproduced by permission. —Criticism, v. 21, Fall, 1979. Copyright © 1979, Wayne State University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Eighteenth-Century Fiction, v. 8, July, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Eighteenth-Century Life, v. 10, January, 1986. © 1986 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Eighteenth-Century Studies, v. 7, Spring, 1974. © 1974 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Hispanic Review, v. XXXV, July, 1967; v. 47, Spring, 1979. Both reproduced by permission.—The Huntington Library Quarterly, v. XXVIII, August, 1965. Reproduced with the permission of the Henry E. Huntington Library.—Journal of the History of Ideas, v. 32, April-June, 1971. © 1971 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The Journal of Narrative Technique, v. 19, Spring, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Notes, v. 80, March, 1965. Copyright © 1965 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The New England Quarterly, v. 62, December, 1989 for “John Adams’s Autobiography: The Ciceronian Paradigm and the Quest for Fame” by James M. Farrell. Copyright 1989 by The New England Quarterly. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, v. 13, 1986 for “The ‘Existential Wave’ in Bécquer’s ‘Rimas’” by David G. Billick; v. 13, 1986 for “The Role of Memory and the Senses in Bécquer’s Poetic Theory” by Margaret E. W. Jones. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Revista Hispanica Moderna, v. 44, December, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Romance Notes, v. 13, Winter, 1971. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, v. 24, 1995. © 1995 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, v. 23, Summer, 1983. © 1983 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in the Novel, v. XXXI, Winter, 1999. Copyright 1999 by North Texas State University. Reproduced by permission.—William and Mary Quarterly, v. LV, April, 1998. © 1998 Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Studies, v. 3, 1975. © 1975 Gordon and Breach Science Publishers Ltd. Reproduced by permission.—Wordsworth Circle,

v. 25, Spring, 1994. © 1994 Marilyn Gaull. Reproduced by permission of the editor.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN NCLC, VOLUME 106, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Anderson, Howard. From “Gothic Heroes,” in The English Hero, 1660-1800. Edited by Robert Folkenflik. University of Delaware Press, 1982. © 1982 by Associated University Presses, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Appleby, Joyce. From Liberalism and Republicanism in Historical Imagination. Harvard University Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Bynum, B. Bryant. From The Romantic Imagination in the Works of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. University of North Carolina Department of Romance Languages, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Bynum, B. Bryant. From The Romantic Imagination in the Works of Gustavo Adolfo. University of North Carolina Department of Romance Languages, 1993. Reproduced by permission.— Castle, Terry. From an introduction to The Mysteries of Udolpho. By Anne Radcliffe, edited by Bonamy Dobree. Oxford University Press, 1998. Introduction © Terry Castle 1998. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Castle, Terry. From “The Spectralization of the Other in ‘The Mysteries of Udolpho,’” in The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature. Edited by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown. Methuen, 1987. © 1987 Methuen, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Ellis, Joseph J. From Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams. W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Joseph J. Ellis. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Flaxman,

Rhoda L. From “Radcliffe’s Dual Modes of Vision,” in Fetter’d or Free? British Women Novelists, 1670-1815. Edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski. Ohio University Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Ohio University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Graham, Kenneth W. From Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/Transgression. Edited by Kenneth W. Graham. AMS Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by AMS Press, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Hagstrum, Jean H. From “Pictures to the Heart: The Psychological Picturesque in Ann Radcliffe’s ‘The Mysteries of Udolpho,’” in Greene Centennial Studies. Edited by Paul J. Korshin and Robert R. Allen. University Press of Virginia, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission.—Hassler, Donald M. From Erasmus Darwin. Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Twayne Publishers, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Hill, John E. From Revolutionary Values for a New Millennium: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Social Virtue. Lexington Books, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Lexington Books. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—King-Hele, Desmond. From Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets. Macmillan, 1986. © Desmond King-Hele 1986. Reproduced by permission.—King-Hele, Desmond. From Erasmus Darwin. Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1963. Copyright © Desmond King-Hele 1963. Reproduced by permission.—King-Hele, Desmond. From “Shelley and Erasmus Darwin,” in Shelley Revalued: Essays from the Gregynog Conference. Edited by Kelvin Everest. Leicester University Press, 1983. Copyright © Leicester University Press 1983. Reproduced by permission.—Mandrell, James. From “’Poesia © eres tu’, or the Construction of Bécquer and the Sign of the Woman,” in Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain. Edited by Lou Charnon-Deutsch and Jo Labanyi. Clarendon Press, 1995. © James Mandrell 1995. Reproduced by permission.—McNeil, Maureen. From “The Scientific Muse: The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin,” in Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature. Edited by L. J. Jordanova. Rutgers University Press, 1986. © L. J. Jordanova 1986. Reproduced by permission.—McNeil, Maureen. From Under the Banner of Science: Erasmus Darwin and His Age. Manchester University Press, 1987. © Maureen McNeil 1987. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Reed, Edward S. From From Soul to Mind: The Emergence of Psychology from Erasmus Darwin to William James. Yale University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Edward S. Reed. Reproduced by permission.—Tichi, Cecilia. From “Worried Celebrants of the American Revolution,” in American Literature 1764-1789: The Revolutionary Years. Edited by Everett Emerson. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1977. Copyright © 1977 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wharton, Leslie. From Polity and the Public Good: Conflicting Theories of Republican Government in the New Nation. UMI Research Press, 1980. Copyright © 1980 Leslie Wharton. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Adams, Abigail, drawing. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.—Adams, John, painting by C. W. Peale. National Archives and Records Administration.—Bécquer, Gustavo Adoya, engraving. © Hulton Getty/Liaison Agency. Reproduced by permission.—Darwin, Erasmus, engraving by J. T. Wedgwood. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

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