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Volume 142

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died between 1800 and 1899, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations

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Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 142
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The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of NCLC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN NCLC, VOLUME 142, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, v. 10, 1999. Copyright Pc 1999 by AMS Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Charles Lamb Bulletin, v. 77, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Criticism, v. 28, fall, 1986; v. 39, fall, 1997. Copyright Pc 1986, 1997 Wayne State University Press. Both reproduced by permission.—Eighteenth-Century Fiction, v. 7, April, 1995. Copyright Pc McMaster University 1995. Reproduced by permission.—English Studies in Canada,

v. 21, December, 1995 for “Engendering a Female Subject: Mary Robinson’s Representations of the Self” by Eleanor Ty. Copyright Pc 1995 by Association of Canadian University Teachers of English. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Keats-Shelley Journal, v. 30, 1981. Copyright Pc Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc. 1981. Reproduced by permission.—Nineteenth-Century Contexts, v. 22, 2000, for “Making an Exhibition of Her Self: Mary ‘Perdita’ Robinson and Nineteenth-Century Scripts of Female Sexuality” by Anne K. Mellor; v. 22, 2000, for “The Dying Game: Crossdressing in Mary Robinson’s Walsingham” by Sharon Setzer. Copyright Pc 2000 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association). Both reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis, Ltd and the respective authors.—Papers on Language and Literature, v. 31, spring, 1995. Copyright Pc 1995 by The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Literary Imagination, v. 30, spring, 1997. Copyright Pc 1997 by Georgia State University. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Romanticism, v. 33, fall, 1994; v. 40, winter, 2001. Copyright Pc 1994, 2001 by the Trustees of Boston University. Both reproduced by permission.—University of South Florida Language Quarterly, v. 5, spring-summer, 1967. Copyright Pc 1967 University of South Florida Language Quarterly. Reproduced by permission.—The Wordsworth Circle, v. 23, summer, 1992; v. 25, spring, 1994. Copyright Pc 1992, 1994 Marilyn Gaull. Both reproduced by permission of the editor.—Women’s Writing, v. 9, 2002, for “Mary Robinson and the New Lyric” by Stuart Curran; v. 9, 2002. From “The Strongest but Most Undecorated Language: Mary Robinson’s Rhetorical Strategy in Letter to the Women of England” by Jane Hodson. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Word & Image, v. 9, July-September, 1993, for “Reading Character in the Face: Lavater, Socrates, and Physiognomy” by Kevin Joel Berland. Copyright Pc 1993 Taylor & Francis Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals) and the author.

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Aktinson, Margaret E. From August Wilhelm Schlegel as a Translator of Shakespeare: A Comparison of Three Plays with the Original. Basil Blackwell, 1958. Copyright Pc Basil Blackwell & Mott, Ltd., 1958. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.—Behler, Ernst. From “Lyric Poetry in the Early Romantic Theory of the Schlegel Brothers,” in Romantic Poetry. Edited by Angela Esterhammer. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002. Copyright Pc 2002 -John Benjamins B.V./Association Internationale de Litterature Comparee. Reproduced by permission of John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsteram/Philadelphia. www.benjamins.com.—Cullins, Chris. From “Mrs. Robinson and the Masquerade of Womanliness,” in Body & Text in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Veronica Kelly and Dorothea Von Mucke. Stanford University Press, 1994. Copyright Pc 1994 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Reproduced by permission.—Curran, Stuart. From “Mary Robinson’s Lyrical Tales in Context,” in Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Edited by Carol Siner Wilson and Joel Haefner. University of Pennsylvania Press. Copyright Pc 1994 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ewton, Ralph W. From The Literary Theories of August Wilhelm Schlegel. Mouton, 1972. Copyright Pc 1972 in The Netherlands. Mouton & Bo. N.V., Publishers, The Hague. Reproduced by permission.—Heier, Edmund. From Studies on Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801) in Russia. Peter Lang, 1991. Copyright Pc Peter Lang Publishers, Inc., Bern 1991. All rights reserved. Repro

duced by permission of the Literary Estate of Edmund Heier.—Hoagwood, Terence A. and Jackson, Rebecca. From an Introduction to Sappho and Phaon: In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets (1796) by Mary Robinson. Scholars’ Facsimilies & Reprints, 1995. Copyright Pc 1995 Academic Resources Corporation. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Hughes, Glyn Tegai. From “Profusion and Order: The Brothers Schlegel,” in Romantic German Literature. Edward Arnold, 1979. Copyright Pc Glyn Tegai Hughes 1979. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.— McGann, Jerome. From “Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho,” in Eighteenth-Century Literary History: An MLQ Reader. Edited by Marshall Brown. Duke University Press, 1999. Copyright Pc 1999 Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Pascoe, Judith. From “Mary Robinson and the Literary Marketplace,” in Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices. Edited by Paula R. Feldman and Theresa M. Kelley. University Press of New England, 1995. Copyright Pc 1995 by University Press of New England. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Pascoe, Judith. From Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship. Cornell University Press, 1997. Copyright Pc 1997 by Cornell University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Cornell University Press.—Peterson, Linda H. From “Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson’s Memoirs and the Origins of Woman Artist’s Autobiography,” in Re-Visioning Romanticism, British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Edited by Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Copyright Pc 1994 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Shaffer, Julie. From “Cross-Dressing and the Nature of Gender in Mary Robinson’s Walsingham,” in Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early-Modern Culture. Edited by Chris Mounsey. Associated University Press, 2001. Copyright Pc by Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Shookman, Ellis. From “Pseudo-Science, Social Fad, Literary Wonder: Johann Caspar Lavater and the Art of Physiognomy,” in The Faces of Physiognomy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Johann Caspar Lavater. Edited by Ellis Shookman. Camden House, 1993. Copyright Pc 1993 by Camden House, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Boydell & Brewer, Ltd.—Shroyer, R. J. From an introduction to Aphorisms on Man (1788), by Johann Caspar Lavater. Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1980. Copyright Pc 1979 Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Stoljar, Margaret. From “The Art of Criticism,” in Athenaeum: A Critical Commentary. Herbert Lang & Co., Ltd., 1973. Copyright Pc Herbert Lang & Co., Ltd., Bern (Switzerland). Reproduced by permission of the author.—Thalmann, Marianne. From “August Wilhelm von Schlegel,” in August Wilhelm von Schlegel. Inter Nationes, 1967. Reproduced by permission.—Ty, Eleanor. From Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812. University of Toronto Press, 1998. Copyright Pc 1998 by University of Toronto Press Incorporated. Reproduced by permission.—Tytler, Graeme. From “Lavater and the Nineteenth-Century English Novel,” in The Faces of Physiognomy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Johann Caspar Lavater. Edited by Ellis Shookman. Camden House, 1993. Copyright Pc 1993 by Camden House, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Boydell & Brewer, Ltd.

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Lavater, Johann Kaspar, Portrait (1741-1845), in profile. Copyright Pc Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Title page of Contributions to the Knowledge and Love of Man, or Physiognomische Fragmente, by Johann Kaspar Lavater, published in 1778. Copyright Pc Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—von Schlegel, August Wilhelm, portrait of German author and scholar (1767-1845), engraving, circa 1810. Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.

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