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Volume 141

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

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    ginia, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of the University of Virginia Press.—Blight, David W. From “Introduction: ‘A Psalm of Freedom,’” in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself. Edited by David W. Blight. Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1993. Copyright © David W. Blight. Reproduced by permission of Palgrave Macmillan.— Demers, Patricia. From The World of Hannah More. The University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The University Press of Kentucky. Reproduced by permission.—Donkin, Ellen. From “The Paper War of Hannah Cowley and Hannah More,” in Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1661-1820. Edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski. Ohio University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Ohio University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ford, Charles Howard. From Hannah More: A Critical Biography. Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 1996. Copyright © 1996 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Gates, Henry-Louis, Jr. From “Binary Oppositions in Chapter One of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Written by Himself,”in Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction. Edited by Dexter Fisher and Robert B. Stepto. Modern Language Association of America, 1979. Copyright © 1978 by The Modern Language Association of America. Reproduced by permission.—Gibson, Donald B. From “Faith, Doubt, and Apostasy: Evidence of Things Unseen in Frederick Douglass’s Narrative,”in Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Edited by Eric J. Sundquist. Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Cambridge University Press. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press.—Hubbard, Dolan. From “‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around’: Reading the Narrative of Frederick Douglass,” in The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism. Edited by Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Frances Murphy Zauhar. Duke University Press, 1993. Copyright

    © 1993, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Used by permission of the publisher.—Keane, Angela. From “The Anxiety of (Feminine) Influence: Hannah More and Counterrevolution,” in Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution. Edited by Adriana Craciun and Kari E. Lokke. State University of New York Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 State University of New York. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the State University of New York Press.—Myers, Mitzi. From “Hannah More’s Tracts for the Times: Social Fiction and Female Ideology,” in Fetter’d or Free? British Women Novelists, 1670-1815. Edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski. Ohio University Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Ohio University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—O’Meally, Robert G. From “The Text Was Meant to Be Preached,” in Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction. Edited by Dexter Fisher and Robert B. Stepto. Modern Language Association of America. Copyright © 1978 by Modern Language Association of America. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rowe, John Carlos. From “Between Politics and Poetics: Frederick Douglass and Postmodernity,” in Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies. Edited by Gunter H. Lenz, Hartmut Keil, and Sabine Brock-Sallah. Campus Verlag, 1990. Copyright © 1990 in Frankfurt am Main by Campus Verlag. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Stepto, Robert. From “Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control,” in Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction. Edited by Dexter Fisher and Robert B. Stepto. Modern Language Association of America. Copyright © 1978 by the Modern Language Association of America. Reproduced by permission.

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    Douglass, Frederick, photograph. The Library of Congress.—More, Hannah, photograph. Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.—Title page for Coelebs in Search of a Wife, by Hannah More, 1809. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Title page for Poems of Mrs. Osgood, by Frances Sargent Osgood, 1846. Courtesy, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD. Reproduced by permission.—Title page for Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Copyright © by Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.

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