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Volume 117

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

Lynn M. Zott

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Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 117
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Lynn M. Zott

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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 117, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Arizona Quarterly, v. 55, Summer, 1999 for “’The Poetess’ and Poe’s Performance of the Feminine” by Eliza Richards. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Critical Inquiry, v. 14, Autumn, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Arts and Sciences, v. 22, October, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Literature, v. 18, Spring, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—German Quarterly, v. 61, Summer, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Germanica: Internationale Zeitschrift fur Germanistik, v. 23, Summer, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Papers in Slavic Philology, v. 2, 1982. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Humanities Review, v. 29, Winter, 1995 for “Edgar Allan Poe and the Nightmare Ode” by Dave Smith. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, v. 16, 1986. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Romanticism, v. 29, Fall, 1990. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS IN NCLC, VOLUME 117, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Claudel, Alice Moser. From New Approaches to Poe: A Symposium. Transcendental Books, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by Transcendental Books. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cooper, Henry R., Jr. From American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists, Vol. II: Literature, Poetics, History. Slavica Publishers, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Slavica Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Davidson, Edward

H. From Poe: A Critical Study. Belknap Press, 1957. Copyright © 1957 by Belknap Press. Copyright renewed © 1985 by Edward H. Davidson. Reproduced by permission.—Felman, Shoshana. From The Literary Freud: Mechanisms of Defense and the Poetic Will. Yale University Press, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Yale University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Fletcher, Richard M. From The Stylistic Development of Edgar Allan Poe. Mouton, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Mouton. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Foster, J. R. From German Men of Letters, Volume V: Twelve Literary Essays. Oswald Wolff, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by Oswald Wolff. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Godwin-Jones, Robert. From Narrative Strategies in the Novels of Jeremias Gotthelf. Peter Lang, 1984. Copyright © 1984 Peter Lang. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hoffman, Daniel. From Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe. Doubleday, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by Daniel Hoffman. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Hogue, L. Lynn. From New Approaches to Poe: A Symposium. Transcendental Books, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by Transcendental Books. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hornbeak, Katherine G. From The Age of Johnson: Essays Presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Yale University Press, 1949. Copyright 1949 by Yale University Press. Copyright renewed © 1977 by Mrs. Frederick W. Hilles. Reproduced by permission.—Kennedy, J. Gerald. From Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing. Yale University Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Yale University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lerner, Arthur. From Psychoanalytically Oriented Criticism of Three American Poets: Poe, Whitman, and Aiken. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ljungquist, Kent. From The Grand and the Fair: Poe’s Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques. Scripta Humanistica, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Scripta Humanistica. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. From The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Clarendon Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Pascal, Roy. From The German Novel: Studies. University of Toronto Press, 1956. Copyright © 1956 by University of Toronto Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—St. Armand, Barton Levi. From Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe. Purdue University Press, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Purdue University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Toporisic, Joze. From The

Formation of the Slavonic Literary Languages. Slavica Publishers, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Slavica Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—West, Rebecca. From From Anne to Victoria: Essays by Various Hands. Books for Libraries Press, Inc., 1967. Copyright © 1967 by Books for Libraries Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Zayed, Georges. From The Genius of Edgar Allan Poe. Schenkman Publishing, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Schenkman Publishing. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN NCLC, VOLUME 117, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Montagu, Elizabeth, photograph. Hulton/Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.—Poe, Edgar Allen, photograph. AP/ Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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