Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism

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Volume 102

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

Excerpts from 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

Jessica Menzo Russel Whitaker

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Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted 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 EXCERPTS IN NCLC, VOLUME 102, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

The American Imago, v. 36, Summer, 1979. © 1979 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.— Brontë Society Transactions, v. 20, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Connecticut Review, v. 14, Fall, 1992 for “Narrative Experience as a Means to Maturity in Anne Brontë’s Victorian Novel ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,’” by Edith A. Kostka. Copyright © 1992 Board of Trustees, Connecticut State University. Reproduced by permission of the author.—ELH,

v. 51, Winter, 1984. © 1984 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—English Studies, v. 63, June 1982 for “The Question of Credibility in Anne Brontë’s ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’” by Arlene M. Jackson. © The English Association 1982. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Forum for Modern Language Studies, v. 18, October, 1982 for “A Suitable Case of Treatment: Ideological Confusion in Vigny’s ‘Cinq-Mars’” by Keith Wren; v. 22, October, 1986 for “Truth and Humanity in Grillparzer’s ‘Weh Dem, Der Lugt!’” by Ian F. Roe. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—French Forum, v. 18, May, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—The French Review, v. 56, February, 1983; v. 60, December, 1986. Copyright 1983, 1986 by the American Association of Teachers of French. Both reproduced by permission.—French Studies Bulletin, Autumn, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—German Quarterly, v. 54, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by the American Association of Teachers of German. Reproduced by permission.—The Germanic Review, v. 56, Fall, 1981 for “‘Der Arme Spielmann’ and the Role of Compromise in Grillparzer’s Work” by Ian F. Roe. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Hispanoﬁla, v. 27, September, 1983;

v. 31, May, 1988. Both reproduced by permission.—Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, v. 9, Summer, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Kentucky Romance Quarterly, v. 20, 1973. Copyright © 1973 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Language Quarterly, v. 29, Winter, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—The Michigan Academician, v. 28, March, 1996. Copyright © The Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Modern Language Quarterly, v. 43, December, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Review, v. 75, 1980; v. 88, October, 1993. © Modern Humanities Research Association 1980, 1993. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Nineteenth-Century French Studies, v. 8, Fall, 1979; v. 20, Spring-Summer, 1992. © 1979, 1992 by Nineteenth-Century French Studies. Both reproduced by permission.—Nineteenth-Century Literature, v. 53, June, 1998 for “Feminism and the Public Sphere in Anne Brontë’s ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’” by Rachel K. Carnell. Copyright © 1998 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, v. 39, 1999. ©1999 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.— Theatre Journal, v. 34, March, 1982. © 1982, University and College Theatre Association of the American Theatre Association. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—University of Toronto Quarterly, v. 32, April, 1963. © University of Toronto Press 1963. Reproduced by permission of University of Toronto Press Incorporated.—The Victorian Newsletter, v. 87, Spring, 1995 for “‘A Frame Perfect and Glorious’: Narrative Structure in Anne Brontë’s ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’” by Elizabeth Signorotti. Reproduced by permission of The Victorian Newsletter and the author.— Women’s Studies, v. 20, 1992. © 1992 Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN NCLC, VOLUME 102, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Bell, Susan Groag. From “The Feminization of John Stuart Mill,” in Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography and Gender. Edited by Susan Groag Bell and Marilyn Yalom. State University of New York Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by

State University of New York Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Buss, Robin. From Vigny: Chatterton. Grant & Cutler Ltd., 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Grant & Cutler Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ireson, J.C. From “Poetry,” in The French Romantics. Edited by D.G. Charlton. Cambridge University Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Langland, Elizabeth. From “The Voicing of Feminine Desire in Anne Brontë’s ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,’” in Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art. Edited by Antony H. Harrison and Beverly Taylor. Northern Illinois University Press, 1992. © 1992 by Northern Illinois University Press. Reproduced by permission.— Mayberry, Robert, and Nancy K. From “Histories, Essays, and Miscellaneous Writings,” in Francisco Martinez de la Rosa. Twayne Publishers, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mullen, W. N. B. From an introduction to Grillparzer’s Aesthetic Theory: A Study with Special Reference to His Conception of the Drama “Eine Gegenrawart.” Akademischer Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by Akademischer Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Reeve, William C. From Grillparzer’s “Libussa©: The Tragedy of Separation. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rossi, Alice S. From Essays on Sex Equality. University of Chicago Press, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Sarojini. From “Better Deal for the Better Half: Mill and Harriet Taylor on the Subjection of Women,” in Women’s Writing: Text and Context. Edited by Jasbir Jain. Rawat Publications, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Rawat Publications. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Thompson, Bruce. From “Die Ahnfrau,” in A Sense of Irony: An Examination of the Tragedies of Franz Grillparzer. Herbert Lang Bern, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by Herber Lang Bern. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Thompson, Bruce. From Franz Grillparzer. Twayne Publishers, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wells, George A. From The Plays of Grillparzer. Pergamon Press, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by Pergamon Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Yates, W.E. From “Ambition,” in Grillparzer: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Zerilli, Linda M.G. From “Constructing ‘Harriet Taylor’: Another Look at J. S. Mill’s Autobiography,” in Constructions of the Self. Edited by George Levine. Rutgers University Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Rutgers University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Rutgers, The State University.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN NCLC, VOLUME 102, WERE RECEIVED FROM THEFOLLOWING SOURCES:

Brontë, Anne, from a drawing by Charlotte Brontë in the possession of the Rev. A. B. Nicholls, 1859, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Francisco de Paula with Martinez de la Rosa, painting. © Archivo Iconograﬁco, S.A./Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Grillparzer, Franz, engraving. The Library of Congress.—“John Stuart Mill,” painting by George F. Watts. The Library of Congress. —Mill, Harriet Taylor, photograph.—Title page from Konig Ottokars Gluck und Ende, written by Franz Grillparzer, photograph. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from Poetica Espanola, written by D. Francisco Martinez de la Rosa, photograph. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from Sappho, written by Franz Grillparzer, photograph. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Vigny, Alfred, Comte de, engraving after a painting. The Library of Congress.

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