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Volume 113

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

Lynn M. Zott

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Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 113
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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 MATERIAL IN NCLC, VOLUME 113, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Canadian Literature, v. 130, Autumn, 1991 for “The Waxing and Waning of Susanna Moodie’s ‘Enthusiasm’” by Susan Glickman. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Canadian Poetry, v. 18, Spring-Summer, 1986; v. 35, Fall-Winter, 1994; v. 40, Spring-Summer, 1997. All reproduced by permission.—The Charles Lamb Bulletin, January, 1986; July, 1987; October, 1987; January, 1991; July, 1991; April, 1992; January, 1993; July, 1993; April, 1995; April, 1997; July, 1997. All reproduced by permission.—Clio, v. 24, Fall, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—English Studies, v. 71, February, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Dickens Studies Annual, v. 18, 1989; v. 20, 1991; v. 22, 1993. All reproduced by permission.—The Dickensian, v. 87, Autumn, 1991 for “The Real Marshalsea” by Trey Philpotts; v. 91, Winter, 1995 for “The Histories of Two Self-Tormentors: Orphans and Power in ‘Little Dorrit’” by Laura Peters. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—English Studies, v. 52, December, 1971. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Canadian Studies, v. 32, Summer, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of English and Germanic Philology, v. 96, July, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Narrative Technique, v. 6, Spring, 1976. Reproduced by permission.—The Kentucky Review, v. 6, Summer, 1986 for “In Search of Charles Lamb” by W. Hugh Peal. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Nineteenth-Century Contexts, v. 20, 1997 for “’The Games of the Prison Children’ in Dickens’s ‘Little Dorrit’” by Mark M. Hennelly, Jr. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Nineteenth-Century Fiction, v. 34, June, 1979 for “Guilt, Authority, and the Shadows of ‘Little Dorrit’” by Elaine Showalter. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Shaw Review, v. 21, September, 1977. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Canadian Literature, v. 25, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, v. 14, Autumn, 1974. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in the Novel, v. 7, Summer, 1975. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Romanticism,v. 29, Summer, 1990; v. 30, Fall, 1991. Both reproduced by permission.—Victorian Newsletter, Fall, 1995 for “Flatness and Ethical Responsibility in ‘Little Dorrit’” by Dominic Ransford. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Victorian Studies, v. 21, Spring, 1978; v. 33, Spring, 1990. Both reproduced by permission.—The Wordsworth Circle, v. 19, Winter, 1988; v. 21, Summer 1990. Both reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN NCLC, VOLUME 113, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Aaron, Jane. From Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender. State University of New York Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by State University of New York Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Fowler, Marian. From The Embroidered Tent; Five Gentlewomen in Early Canada: Elizabeth Simcoe, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Anna Jameson, Lady Dufferin. House of Anansi Press Limited, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by House of Anansi Press Limited. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Heller, Janet Ruth. From Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama. University of Missouri Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by University of Missouri Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hollington, Mike. From The English Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Essays on the Literary Mediation of Human Values. University of Illinois Press, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by University of Illinois Press. All right reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Inness, Sherrie A. From Imperial Objects: Essays on Victorian Women’s Emigration and the Unauthorized Imperial Experience. Twayne Publishers, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Riehl, Joseph E. From That Dangerous Figure: Charles Lamb and the Critics. Camden House, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Camden House. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rosenberg, Brian. From Little Dorrit’s Shadows: Character and Contradiction in Dickens. University of Missouri Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Re

produced by permission.—Thurston, John. From The Work of Words: The Writing of Susanna Strickland Moodie. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN NCLC, VOLUME 113, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Dickens, Charles, photograph. Hesketh Pearson. Reproduced by permission.—©Geranium and Lily,” watercolor by Susanna Moodie, photograph. National Library of Canada. Reproduced by permission.—Illustration from “Little Dorrit,” written by Charles Dickens. © Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Lamb, Charles, drawing. The Library of Congress.— Title page from “John Woodvil: A Tragedy,” written by Charles Lamb. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from “Poetry for Children,” written by Charles and Mary Lamb. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from “Roughing It in the Bush,” written by Susanna Moodie. Reproduced by permission of the National Library of Canada.

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