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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 105, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Literature, v. 62, March, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by the Duke University Press. Reproduced by permission.— American Quarterly, v. 19, Winter, 1967; v. 31, Summer, 1979. © 1967, 1979 Johns Hopkins University Press. Both reproduced by permission.—Callaloo, v. 7, Winter, 1984. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission./ v. 20, Winter, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Charles H. Rowell. All rights reserved. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Dalhousie Review, v. 62, Summer, 1982 for “’Our Mutual Friend’ and the Test of Worthiness” by Lewis Horne. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Dickens Quarterly, v. 8, September, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Dickens Studies Annual, v. 18, 1989; v. 19, 1990; v. 24, 1996. Copyright © 1989, 1990, 1996 by AMS Press, Inc. All reproduced by permission.—The Dickensian, v. 77, Autumn, 1981 for “Boffin and Podsnap in Utopia” by Jerome Meckier; v. 86, Autumn, 1990 for “Dickens and Popular Culture: Silas Wegg’s Ballads in ‘Our Mutual Friend’” by Wilfred P. Dvorak. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Early American Literature, v. XII, Fall, 1977; v. XIII, Fall, 1978; v. XIX, Winter, 1984-85; v. XX, Spring, 1985. All reproduced by permission.— Eighteenth-Century Life, v. 5, Winter, 1978. Reproduced by permission.—ELH, v. 40, Spring, 1973. © 1973 Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Criticism, v. 13, July, 1963; v. 25, April, 1975. Both reproduced by permission.—Essays in Literature, v. 3, Fall, 1976. Reproduced by permission.—Etudes Anglaises, v. XXXVIII, July-September, 1985. © Didier Erudition, 1985. Reproduced by permission.—The French Review, v. LI, March, 1978. Copyright 1978 by the American Association of Teachers of French. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of American Studies, v. 9, 1975. Reproduced by permission.—The Journal of Narrative Technique, v. 15, Fall, 1985. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Narrative Theory, v. 30, Winter, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Journal of Narrative Theory. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Philology, v. 86, August, 1988. © 1988 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—The New England Quarterly, v. 64, September, 1991 for “The Nantucket Sequence in Crevecoeur’s ‘Letters from an American Farmer’” by Nathaniel Philbrick. Copyright 1991 by The New England Quarterly. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Nineteenth-Century Fiction, v. 20, 1965 for “Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend’ and Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’” by Harland S. Nelson; v. 20, 1965 for “The Motif of Reading in ‘Our Mutual Friend’” by Stanley Friedman. © 1965 University of California Press. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Nineteenth-Century Fiction, v. 34, 1979 for “The Education of the Reader in ‘Our Mutual Friend’” by Rosemary Mundhenr. © 1979 University of California Press. Reproduced by permission.—Nineteenth-Century Literature, v. 49, June, 1994 for “’A Dismal Swamp’: Darwin, Design, and Evolution in ‘Our Mutual Friend’” by Howard W. Fulwieler. Copyright 1994 by Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission.—Novel, v. 28, Winter, 1995. Copyright NOVEL Corp. © 1995. Reproduced with permission.—Papers on Language and Literature, v. 30, Fall, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Philological Quarterly, v. 61, Winter, 1982 for “From the Ending of ‘The Professor’ to the Conception of ‘Jane Eyre’” by Rebecca Rodolff. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Review of English Studies, v. XI, May, 1960 for “The Manuscript of ‘The Professor’” by M.M. Brammer. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author./ v. XLVII, May, 1996. © Oxford University Press 1996. Reproduced by permission.—South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 69, Summer, 1970. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in American Fiction, v. 18, Autumn, 1990. Copyright © 1990 Northeastern University. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in the Novel, v. 10, Summer, 1978. Copyright 1978 by North Texas State University. Reproduced by permission.—Texas Studies in Literature and Language, v. 13, Fall, 1971 for “Laughter in ‘Our Mutual Friend’” by Ray J. Sherer. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Victorian Newsletter, v. 24, Fall, 1963. Reproduced by permission of The Victorian Newsletter and the author.—William and Mary Quarterly, v. 48, April, 1991; v. 55, April, 1998. Copyright 1991, 1998 by the Institute of Early American History and Culture. Both reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN NCLC, VOLUME 105, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Eakin, Sue, and Joseph Logsdon. From an introduction to Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup. Edited by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon. Louisiana State University Press, 1968. Reproduced by permission of Louisiana State University.— Glen, Heather. From an introduction to The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte. Penguin Books, 1989. Introduction © Heather Glen, 1989. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Knapp, Bettina L. From The Brontes: Branwell, Anne, Emily, Charlotte. Continuum, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Bettina L. Knapp. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Nichols, Charles H. From Many Thousand Gone: The Ex-Slaves Account of Their Bondage and Freedom. E. J. Brill, 1963. Copyright 1963 by E. J. Brill. Reproduced by permission.—Stepto, Robert R. From From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative. University of Illinois Press, 1979. © 1979 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reproduced by permission.—Tayler, Irene. From Holy Ghosts: The Male Muses of Emily and Charlotte Bronte. Columbia University Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Tromly, Annette. From “’The Professor,’” in The Cover of the Mask: The Autobiographers in Charlotte Bronte’s Fiction. English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1982. © 1982 by Annette Tromly. Reproduced by permission of the author.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN NCLC, VOLUME 105, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Bronte, Charlotte, painting. Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.—Dickens, Charles, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Northup, Solomon, engraving entitled “Solomon in His Plantation Suit,” from Twelve Years a Slave.... From The Rare Book Collection, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reproduced by permission.—St. John, J. Hector, portrait.—Title page from Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John, photograph. The University of Michigan Library. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from The Professor, by Currer Bell, photograph. The University of Michigan Library. Reproduced by permission.

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