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Volume 116

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

Topics Volume

Criticism of Various

Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature, including Literary and Critical Movements, Prominent Themes and Genres, Anniversary

Celebrations, and Surveys of National Literatures

Lynn M. Zott

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Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 116
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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 MATERIALS IN NCLC, VOLUME 116, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Arizona Quarterly, v. 54, 1998 for “Imprisoned in/at Home: Criminal Culture in Rebecca Harding Davis’ Margret Howth: A Story of Today” by Lisa Long. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Australian Literary Studies,

v. 5, May, 1971 for “Literary Nationalism and the 1890s” by Bruce Nesbitt; v. 10, May, 1981 for “The Development of an Egalitarian Poetics in the Bulletin 1880-1890” by Douglas Jarvis; v. 11, May, 1983 for “Lawson, the Bulletin and the Short Story” by Doug Jarvis; v. 14, October, 1990 for “Nationalism before Nationhood: Overseas Horizons in the Debates of the 1880s” by Gerhard Stilz. All reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Critical Survey, v. 11, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of American Studies, v. 30, April, 1996 for “Carry Me Back: Nostalgia for the Old South in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture” by Susan Key and Lee Glazer. Reproduced by permission of the authors.—Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, v. 62, March, 1977. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Studies, v. 11, 1980-81 for “Women Prison Authors in France: Twice Criminal” by Elissa Deborah Gelfand; v. 14, 1984 for “The Artist in the Slammer: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Prison of Their Times” by Robert Shulman. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Nineteenth-Century French Studies, v. 26, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Novel, v. 27, 1994; v. 48, 1996. Copyright © 1994, 1996 Novel Corp. Both reproduced by permission.—Overland, v. 81, October, 1980 for The Early Bulletin and Lyric Verse” by Grace Keel. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Southern Studies, v. 7, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Theatre Research International, v. 18, 1993 for “It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1865) and Prison Conditions in Nineteenth-Century England” by Daniel Barrett. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Western Humanities Review, v. 24. 1970. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN NCLC, VOLUME 116, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Barnes, John. From “Discovering Australia: Commentary,” in The Writer in Australia: A Collection of Literary Documents 1856 to 1964. Edited by John Barnes. Oxford University Press, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Brombert, Victor. From “The Happy Prison: A Recurring Metaphor,” in The Romantic Prison: The French Tradition. Edited by David Thornburn and Geoffrey Hartman. Cornell University Press, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by Princeton University Press. Reproduced by permission of Princeton University Press.—Brombert, Victor. From Romanticism: Vistas, Instances, Continuities. Cornell University Press, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Princeton University Press.—Cantrell, Leon. From an Introduction to The 1980s: Stories, Verse, and Essays. Edited by Leon Cantrell. University of Queensland Press, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by University of Queensland Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Carter, David, and Gillian Whitlock. From “Institutions of Australian Literature,” in Australian Studies: A Survey. Edited by James Walter. Oxford University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the authors.—Davison, Graeme. From “Sydney and the Bush: An Urban Context of the Australian Legend,” in Intruders in the Bush: The Australian Quest of Identity. Edited by John Carroll. Oxford University Press, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Gebhard, Caroline. From “Reconstructing Southern Manhood: Race, Sentimentality, and Camp in the Plantation Myth,” in Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts. Edited by Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson. Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gray, Richard. From Southern Aberrations: Writers of

the American South and the Problems of Regionalism. Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gray, Richard. From Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Green, H.M. From A History of Australian Literature: Pure and Applied, Volume I, 1789-1923. Angus & Robertson, 1961. Copyright © 1961 by Angus & Robertson. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kiernan, Brian. From Criticism. Oxford University Press, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.— Kreyling, Michael. From “After the War: Romance and Reconstruction of Southern Literature,” in Southern Literature in Transition: Heritage and Promise. Edited by Philip Castille and William Osborne. Memphis State University Press, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Memphis State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mackethan, Lucinda Hardwick. From “Plantation Fiction, 1865-1900,” in The Dream of Arcady: Place and Time in Southern Literature. Edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—MacKethan, Lucinda Hardwick. From The History of Southern Literature. Louisiana State University Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mitchell, Adrian. From “Fiction,” in The Oxford History of Australian Literature. Edited by Leonie Kramer. Oxford University Press, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publiher and the author.—Richardson, Thomas. From “Local Color in Louisiana,” in The History of Southern Literature. Edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Louisiana State University Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ridgely, J.V. From Nineteenth-Century Southern Literature. The University Press of Kentucky, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by The University Press of Kentucky. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rowley, Sue. From “Imagination, Madness, and Nation in Australian Bush Mythology,” in Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia. Edited by Kate Dorian-Smith, Liz Gunner, and Sarah Nuttall. Routledge, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Routledge. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rubin, Jr., Louis D. From an Introduction to Southern Writing, 1585-1920. Edited by Richard Beale Davis, C. Hugh Holman, and Louis D. Rubin, Jr. The Odyssey Press, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by The Odyssey Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rubin, Jr., Louis D. From William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination. Louisiana State University Press, 1975. Copyright © 1975 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Serle, Geoffrey. From From Deserts the Prophets Come: The Creative Spirit in Australia 1788-1972. William Heineman, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by William Heineman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Shillingsburg, Miriam J. From “The Ascent of Woman, Southern Style: Hentz, King, Chopin,” in Southern Literature in Transition: Heritage and Promise. Edited by Philip Castille and William Osborne. Memphis State University Press, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Memphis State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Simpson, Lewis P. From The Man of Letters in New England and the South: Essays on the History of the Literary Vocation in America. Louisiana State University Press, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Stephens, Robert O. From The Family Saga in the South: Generations and Destinies. Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Tambling, Jeremy. From “Prison-Bound: Dickens and Foucalt,” in Great Expectations. Edited by Roger D. Sell.St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by St. Martin’s Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Trott, Nicola. From “Keats and the Prison House of History,” in Keats and History. Edited by Nicholas Roe. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Wallace-Crabbe, Chris. From “The Legend of the Legend of the Nineties,” in Review of National Literatures: Australia. Edited by L. A. C. Dobrez. Griffin House Publications, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Griffin House Publications. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— White, Richard. From Images and Identity 1688-1980. George Allen & Unwin, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by George Allen & Unwin. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wright, Judith. From Preoccupations in Australian Poetry. Oxford University Press, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the Literary Estate of Judith Wright McKinney.

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Clemens, Samuel, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Exterior view of Newgate Prison in London, England, photograph. © Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Scott, Sir Walter, illustration. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Stephens, Alfred George, photograph. National Library of Australia. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from The Gradissimes: A Story of Creole Life, written by George W. Cable. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction, written by Thomas Nelson, illustration. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.

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