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American Literature, v. XLVIII, November, 1976; v. 69, December, 1997. Copyright © 1976, 1997 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—American Transcendental Quarterly, no. 7, Summer, 1970; v. 1, September, 1987; v. 1, September, 1987. Copyright © 1970, 1987 by Kenneth Walter Cameron. Reproduced by permission.— The Arizona Quarterly, v. 31, Spring, 1975. Copyright © 1975 by the Regents of the University of Arizona. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Atlantis, v. 7, Autumn, 1981. Reproduced by permission.—Ball State University Forum, Summer, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Ball State University. Reproduced by permission.—boundary 2, v. 17, Spring, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, v. 86, 1985. Reproduced by permission of The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundations.—Eighteenth-Century Fiction, v. 7, July, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—The Emerson Society Quarterly, no. 48, Third Quarter, 1967. Reproduced by permission.—Esquire, no. 60, Summer, 1970; v. 33, 3rd Quarter, 1987. Copyright © 1970, 1987 by Esquire Associates. Reproduced by permission.—L’Esprit Créateur, v. XXXIV, Fall, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by L’Esprit Créateur. Reproduced by permission.—Literature and Medicine, v. 16, Fall, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—The New Criterion, v. 16, May, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by The Foundation for Cultural Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Papers on Language & Literature, v. V, Winter, 1969; v. 26, 1990. Copyright © 1969, 1990 by The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.— The Romanic Review, v. 87, January, 1996. © The Trustees of Columbia University. Reproduced by permission.—The Southern Humanities Review, v. XV, Summer, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Auburn University. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, v. 24, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in the Novel, v. VI, Summer, 1974; v. XV, Fall, 1983; v. XVI, Winter, 1984; v. XVIII, Winter, 1986. Copyright © 1974, 1983, 1984, 1986 by North Texas State University. Reproduced by permission.—Texas Studies in Literature and Language, v. 38, Winter, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—The Theatre Annual, v. XXXVIII, 1983. Reproduced by permission.

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Besser, Gretchen R. From “Forays into Fiction: Delphine,” in Germaine de Stael Revisited. Twayne Publishers, 1994. Copyright © The Gale Group. Reproduced by permission.—Bowman, Frank P. From “Communication and Power in Germaine de Stäel: Transparency and Obstacle,” in Germaine de Stäel: Crossing the Borders. Edited by Madelyn Gutwirth, Avriel Goldberger, and Karyna Szmurlo. Rutgers University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Rutgers, The State University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brown, Gillian. From “Anti-Sentimentalism and Authorship in Pierre,” in Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America. University of California Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author.—Clayton, Christopher. From “The Political Career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan,” in Sheridan Studies. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced by permission of the author and the publisher.—Creech, James. From “Pierre, or The Ambiguities: A Camp Reading,” in Closet Writing/Gay Reading: The Case of Melville’s “Pierre.” The University of Chicago Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.—Durant, Jack D. From “Poet,” in Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Twayne Publishers, 1975. Copyright © 1975 by Twayne Publishers, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Gray, Richard. “’All’s o’er and ye know him not’: A Reading of Pierre,” in Herman Melville: Reassessments. Edited by A. Robert Lee. Vision and Barnes & Noble, 1984. Copyright © 1984 (London) Vision Press. Reproduced by permission.—Higgins, Brian and Hershel Parker.

From “The Flawed Grandeur of Melville’s Pierre,” in New Perspectives on Melville. Edited by Faith Pullin. Kent State University Press, 1978. © Edinburgh University Press 1978. Reproduce by permission.—Hogan, Robert. From “Plot, Character, and Comic Language in Sheridan,” in Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan: Change and Continuity in the English and European Dramatic Tradition. Edited by A. R. Braunmuller and J. C. Bulman. Associated University Presses, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Associate University Presses, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Hogsett, Charlotte. From “History and Story,” in The Literary Existence of Germaine de Stäel. Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University. Reproduced by permission.—Kelley, Wyn. From “Pierre’s Domestic Ambiguities,” in The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. Edited by Robert S. Levine. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998. Reproduced by permission of the author and the publisher.—Massardier-Kenney, Francoise. From “Stäel, Translation, and Race,” in Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women’s Writing, 1783-1823. Edited by Doris Y. Kadish. Kent State University Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by The Kent State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mumford, Lewis. From “From ‘Armor, Threatening,’” in Critical Essays on Herman Melville’s Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. G. K. Hall & Co., 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker. Reproduced by permission.—Rowe, John C. From “Romancing the Stone: Melville’s Critique of Ideology in Pierre,” in Theorizing American Literature: Hegel, the Sign, and History. Edited by Bainard Cowan and Joseph G. Kronick. Louisiana State University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Scheer, Steven C. From “Herman Melville,” in Pious Impostures and Unproven Words: The Romance of Deconstruction in Nineteenth-Century America. University Press of America, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by University Press of America, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Taylor, Richard C. From “’Future Retrospection’: Rereading Sheridan’s Reviewers,” in Sheridan Studies. Edited by James Morwood and David Crane. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced by permission of the author and the publisher.

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Melville, Herman, photograph. The Granger Collection LTD. Reproduced by permission.—Stäel, Madame de (rose pink Empire dress), color lithograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission —Title page from “De L’influence des Passions sur le Bonheur des Individus et des Nations,” (“A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions upon the Happiness of Individuals and of Nations”), written by Stäel de Holstein, photograph. Reproduced by permission of The University of Michigan.—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, photograph. The Library of Congress. Reproduced by permission of The Library of Congress.—A title page for “’Pierre; or, The Ambiguities’,” by Herman Melville, 1852 edition, photograph. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, The University of Michigan Library. Reproduced by permission of The University of Michigan.