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Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 143

NCLC is designed to introduce students and advanced readers to the authors of the nineteenth century and to the most significant interpretations of these authors’ works. The great poets, novelists, short story writers, playwrights, and philosophers of this period are frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. By organizing and reprinting commentary written on these authors, NCLC helps students develop valuable insight into literary history, promotes a better understanding of the texts, and sparks ideas for papers and assignments. Each entry in NCLC presents a comprehensive survey of an author’s career or an individual work of literature and provides the user with a multiplicity of interpretations and assessments. Such variety allows students to pursue their own interests; furthermore, it fosters an awareness that literature is dynamic and responsive to many different opinions.

Every fourth volume of NCLC is devoted to literary topics that cannot be covered under the author approach used in the rest of the series. Such topics include literary movements, prominent themes in nineteenth-century literature, literary reaction to political and historical events, significant eras in literary history, prominent literary anniversaries, and the literatures of cultures that are often overlooked by English-speaking readers.

NCLC continues the survey of criticism of world literature begun by Thomson Gale’s Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).

An NCLC entry consists of the following elements:

by R. Larry Todd. Princeton University Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Princeton University Press.—Daverio, John. From “Music Criticism in a New Key,” in Robert Schumann: Herald of a New Poetic Age. Oxford University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.—Hanham, Harry. From the Introduction in Hugh Miller’s Memoir: From Stonemason to Geologist. Edited by Michael Shortland. Edinburgh University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 Michael Shortland, 1995. Reproduced by permission of the publisher at www.eup.ed.ac.uk.—Hunt, Leigh. From “Leigh Hunt, Review, The Indicator,”in Shelley: The Critical Heritage. Edited by James E. Barcus. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. Copyright © 1975 by James E. Barcus. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Jensen, Eric Frederick. From “Schumann and Literature,” in Schumann. Edited by Stanley Sadie. Copyright © 2001 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.—Merrill, Lynn L. From “Hugh Miller and Evocative Geology,” in The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.—Paradis, James G. From “The Natural Historian as Antiquary of the World: Hugh Miller and the Rise of Literary Natural History,” in Hugh Miller and the Controversies of Victorian Science. Edited by Michael Shortland. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1996. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Plantinga, Leon B. From “Introduction,” “Schumann’s Style of Criticism,” and “Schumann’s Aesthetics of Music,” in Schumann as Critic. Edited by William G. Waite. Yale University Press, 1967. Reproduced by permission.—Reid-Pharr, Robert. From “Clean House, Peculiar People,” in Conjugal Union: The Body, The House and the Black American. Oxford University Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.—Reid-Pharr, Robert. From the Introduction in The Garies and Their Friends. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Introduction © 1997 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—Rosie, George. From Hugh Miller: A Biography And Selected Writings. Mainstream Publishing, 1981. Biography © George Rosie. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.