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Volume 139

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

Russel Whitaker Marie C. Toft

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Acknowledgments

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 139, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

British Journal of Sociology, v. 25, June, 1974 for “The Meaning of Feuerbach” by Allan D. Galloway. Copyright © 1974 British Journal of Sociology. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Books, Ltd.—Cambridge Quarterly, v. 30, 2001 for “Children, Monsters, and Words in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”byBen Silverstone. Copyright © The Editors. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and the author.—Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, v. 11, 1972. Reproduced by permission.—ELH, v. 68, winter, 2001. Copyright © 2001 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Evangelical Quarterly, v. 44, January-March, 1972 for “Ludwig Feuerbach: Still ‘A Thorn in the Flesh of Modern Theology’?” by Robert Banks. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, v. 6, spring, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Interpretation, v. 13, September, 1985 for “Individuation and Commonality in Feuerbach’s “Philosophy of Man’” by Kit R. Christensen. Copyright © 1985 Interpretation. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, v. 6, March, 1985. Reproduced by permission.— Journal of Religion, v. 56, October, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.— Legacy: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers, v. 8, spring, 1991. Reproduced by permission.— Michigan Germanic Studies, v. 19, spring, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—The New England Quarterly, v. 69, 1996 for “‘Promoting an Extensive Sale’: The Production and Reception of The Lamplighter” by Susan S. Williams. Copyright held by The New England Quarterly. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Nineteenth-Century Fiction, v. 33, December, 1978 for “Memory in the Alice Books” by Lionel Morton. Copyright © 1978 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Nineteenth-Century Literature, v. 41, September, 1986 for “Alice the Child-Imperialist and the Games of Wonderland” by Daniel Bivona. Copyright © 1986 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Philosophical Forum, v. 11, winter, 1979-80. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.—Philosophy and Literature, v. 20, 1996. Copyright

© 1996 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Policy Studies, v. 26, September, 1978. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.—Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v. 82, fallwinter, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—South Carolina Review, v. 32, fall, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Clemson University. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in American Fiction, v. 30, autumn, 2002. Copyright © 2002 Northeastern University. Reproduced by permission.—SubStance, v. 22, 1993. Copyright © 1993 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Tennessee Studies in Literature, v. 27, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by The University of Tennessee Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The University of Tennessee Press.—Yale French Studies, no. 43, 1969 for “What is a Boojum? Nonsense and Modernism” by Michael Holquist. Copyright © Yale French Studies 1969. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN NCLC, VOLUME 139, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Barnes, Elizabeth. From States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel. Columbia University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 Columbia University Press, New York. All rights reserved. Republished with permission of the Columbia University Press, 61 W. 62nd St., New York, NY 10023.—Baym, Nina. From Woman’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-1870. University of Illinois, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reproduced by permission of University of Illinois Press.—Beaver, Harold. From “Whale or Boojum: An Agony,” in Lewis Carroll Observed: A Collection of Unpublished Photographs, Drawings, Poetry, and New Essays. Edited by Edward Guiliano. Clarkson N. Potter, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by Edward Guiliano. Repro

duced by permission of Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc.—Cohen, Morton N. From “Lewis Carroll and the Education of Victorian Women,” in Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World. Edited by Rhoda B. Nathan. Greenwood Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Hofstra University. Copyright © 1984 by Morton N. Cohen. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Goshgarian, G. M. From To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance. Cornell University Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Cornell University. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Cornell University Press.—Irwin, Michael. From “Alice: Reflections and Relativities,” in Rereading Victorian Fiction. Edited by Alice Jenkins and Juliet John. Palgrave, 2000. Copyright © Macmillan Press Ltd 2000. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.—Kelly, Richard. From Lewis Carroll. Twayne, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by G. K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Masterson, Patrick. From Atheism and Alienation: A Study of the Philosophical Sources of Contemporary Atheism. Gill and Macmillan Ltd., 1971. Copyright © Patrick Masterson 1971. Reproduced by permission.—Miller, Edmund. From “The Sylvie and Bruno Books as Victorian Novel,” in Lewis Carroll Observed: A Collection of Unpublished Photographs, Drawings, Poetry, and New Essays. Edited by Edward Guiliano. Clarkson N. Potter, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by Edward Guiliano. Reproduced by permission of Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc.—Newberry, Frederick. From “Male Doctors and Female Illness in American Women’s Fiction, 1850-1900,” in Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930. Edited by Monika M. Elbert. The University of Alabama Press, 1990. Copyright © 2000 The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Polhemus, Robert M. From “Lewis Carroll and the Child in Victorian Fiction,” in The Columbia History of the British Novel. Edited by John Richetti. Columbia University Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 Columbia University Press, New York. All rights reserved. Republished with permission of the Columbia University Press, 61 W. 62nd St., New York, NY 10023.—Schueller, Malini Johar. From U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890. The University of Michigan Press, 1998. Copyright © by the University of Michigan 1998. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Schwab, Gabriele. From “Nonsense and Metacommunication: Reflections on Lewis Carroll,” in The Play of the Self. Edited by Ronald Bogue and Mihai I. Spariosu. State University of New York Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 State University of New York. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the State University of New York Press.— Sigler, Carolyn. From an Introduction to Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books: An Anthology. University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by The University Press of Kentucky. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Tatarkiewicz, Wladyslaw. From Nineteenth Century Philosophy, First Edition. Translated by Chester A. Kisiel. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Wadsworth, a division of Thomson Learning: www.thomsonrights.com. Reproduced by permission.—Wartofsky, Marx W. From Feuerbach. Cambridge University Press, 1977. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN NCLC, VOLUME 139, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Dodgson, Charles L. (Lewis Carroll), photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Feuerbach, Ludwig, circa 1870, photograph. AKG Images, London. Reproduced by permission.—Tenniel, John, illustrator. From Alice’s Adventurers in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll. Copyright © Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Title page for The Essence of Christianity, by Ludwig Feuerbach. J. Chapman, 1854. Translated from the second German edition of Wesen des Christentums, by Marian Evans. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Title page for The Lamplighter, by Maria S. Cummins. J. P. Jewett & Company, 1854. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.

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