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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. 118
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Comparative Literature Studies, v. 25, 1988 for “Homeric Similes, Occidental and Oriental: Tasso, Milton, and Bengal’s Michael Madhusudan Dutt” by Clinton B. Seely. Copyright 1988 by The Pennsylvania State University. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—English Language Notes, v. 31, December, 1993. © copyrighted 1993, Regents of the University of Colorado. Reproduced by permission.—English Studies, v. 67, August, 1986. © 1986, Swets & Zeitlinger. Reproduced by permission.—ESQ, v. 55, 1969 for “Lanier’s Critical Theory” by Elmer A. Havens. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Georgia Review, v. 22, Winter, 1968. Copyright, 1968, by the University of Georgia. Reproduced by permission.—Literature and History, v. 11, Autumn, 1985. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Mahfil: A Quarterly of South Asian Literature, (after 1972, Journal of South Asian Literature) v. 3, 1967. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Quarterly, v. 58, December, 1997, for “’Pure Poetry’: Cultural Capital and the Rejection of Classicism” by Tevor Ross. Copyright © December, 1997 University of Washington. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Duke University Press.—Modern Language Review, v. 86, July, 1991. © Modern Humanities Research Association 1991. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Nineteenth-Century Fiction, v. 35, 1980 for “The Failure of Realism: ‘Felix Holt’” by Catherine Gallagher; Copyright © 1973 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Nineteenth-Century Literature, v. 37, September, 1982 for “’Felix Holt: Language, the Bible, and the Problematic of Meaning” by Robin Sheets; v. 56, June, 2001 for “’Influencing the Moral Taste’: Literary Work, Aesthetics, and Social Change in ‘Felix Holt, the Radical’” by Elizabeth Starr. Copyright © 1982, 2001 by The Regents of the University of California. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Novel: A Forum on Fiction, v. 30, Fall, 1996; v. 30, Winter, 1997. Copyright NOVEL Corp. © 1996. Both reproduced by permission.—Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, v. 84, June, 1990 for “The Printing of Joseph Warton’s ‘Odes’” by Hugh Reid. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Philological Quarterly, v. 50, 1971 for “Joseph Warton’s Figure of Virtue: Poetic Indirection in ‘The Enthusiast’” by David B. Morris. Copyright © 1971 by The University of Iowa. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Review of English Studies, v. 18, August, 1967 for “Joseph Warton and His Second Volume of the ‘Essay on Pope’” by Joan Pittock. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and the author.—Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, v. 40, 1986. Reproduced by permission.—SEL, v. 35, Autumn, 1995. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Slavic and East European Journal, v. 29, Winter, 1985. © 1985 by AATSEEL of the U.S., Inc. Reproduced by permission.— South Atlantic Bulletin, v. 36, 1971. Reproduced by permission.—South Dakota Review, v. 17, Spring, 1979. © 1979, University of South Dakota. Reproduced by permission.—Texas Studies in Literature and Language, v. 17, June, 1975 for “George Eliot’s Vision of Society in ‘Felix Holt the Radical’” by Lenore Wisney Horowitz. Copyright © 1975 by the University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—TSE: Tulane Studies in English, v. 14, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Tulane University. Reproduced by permission.—Victorian Literature and Culture, v. 26, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by AMS Press, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Victorian Studies, v. 18, June, 1975 for “Self-Defeating Politics in George Eliot’s Felix Holt” by Linda Bamber; v. 35, Autumn, 1991 for “Felix Holt, The Killer: A Reconstruction” by Judith Wilt. Both reproduced by permission by the publisher, Indiana University Press.

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Booth, Alison. From Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Cornell University, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Cornell University. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press.—Bowdre, Paul H., Jr.

From “Eye Dialect as a Literary Device in the Words of Sidney Lanier,” in Papers in Language Variation: SAMLAADS Collection. Edited by David L. Shores and Carole P. Hines. The University of Alabama Press, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Chatterjee, Sudipto. From “’Mise-En(Colonial-)Scene’: The Theatre of the Bengal Renaissance,” in Imperialism and Theatre: Essays on World Theatre, Drama, and Performance. Edited by J. Ellen Gainor. Routledge, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Routledge. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—De Bellis, Jack. From Sidney Lanier. Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1972. Copyright © 1972 by Twayne Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Gale Group.—England, Kenneth. From “Sidney Lanier in C Major,” in Reality and Myth: Essays in American Literature in Memory of Richard Croom Beatty. Edited by William E. Walker and Robert L. Welker. Vanderbilt University Press, 1964. Copyright © 1964 by Vanderbilt University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gabin, Jane S. From A Living Minstrelsy. Mercer University Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Mercer University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Galinsky, Hans. From “Northern and Southern Aspects of Nineteenth Century American-German Interrelations: Dickinson and Lanier,” in American-German Literary Interrelations in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Christoph Wecker. Fink, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Fink. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gosse, Edmund. From Proceedings of the British Academy: 1915-1916, Volume VII. Kraus Reprint, 1976. © The British Academy 1916. Copyright © 1976 by Kraus Reprint. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Griffith, Philip Mahone. From “A Short View of Joseph Warton’s Criticism of Milton,” in Papers on Milton. Edited by Philip Mahone Griffith and Lester

F. Zimmerman. The University of Tulsa, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by The University of Tulsa. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Harwell, Richard. From an Introduction to Tiger-Lilies: A Novel, by Sidney Lanier. The University of North Carolina Press, 1969. Copyright © 1969 The University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Parks, Edd Winfield. From “Lanier as Poet,” in Essays on American Literature in Honor of Jay B. Hubbell. Edited by Clarence Gohdes. Duke University Press, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Pittock, Joan. From an Introduction to Odes on Various Subjects (1746), by Joseph Warton. Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Pittock, Joan. From The Ascendancy of Taste: the Achievement of Joseph and Thomas Warton. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Routledge and Kegan Paul. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Radice, William. From “Milton and Madhusudan,” in Literature East and West: Essays Presented to R.K. DasGupta. Edited by G.R. Taneja and Vinod Sena. Allied Publishers Limited, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Allied Publishers Limited. Originally published in Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader, n. 10. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ray, Sibnarayan. From “Ideologies and the Alienated Writer,” in Society and the Writer: Essays on Literature in Modern Asia. Edited by Wang Gungwu, M. Guerrero, and D. Marr. Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Sandler, Florence. From “The Unity of ‘Felix Holt,’” in George Eliot: A Centenary Tribute. Edited by Gordon S. Haight and Rosemary T. VanArsdel. Macmillan Press, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Macmillan Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Palgrave Macmillan.—Thomson, Fred C. From “Politics and Society in ‘Felix Holt,’” in The Classic British Novel. Edited by Howard M. Harper, Jr., and Charles Edge. The University of Georgia Press, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by The University of Georgia Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Vance, Norman. From “Law, Religion and the Unity of ‘Felix Holt,’” in George Eliot Centenary Essays and an Unpublished Fragment. Edited by Anne Smith. Barnes & Noble, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Barnes & Noble. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Rowan and Littlefield and the author.—Young, Thomas Daniel. From “Lanier and Shakespeare,” in Shakespeare and Southern Writers: A Study in Influence. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. University Press of Mississippi, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by University Press of Mississippi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Eliot, George, photograph. Hulton/Archive/Getty Image. Reproduced by permission.—Eliot, George, photograph. Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Lanier, Sidney, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Title page from “Felix Holt the Radical,” by George Eliot. The University of Michigan Library. Reproduced by permission.—Warton, Doctor Joseph. Archive Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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