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Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 144

NCLC is designed to introduce students and advanced readers to the authors of the nineteenth century and to the most significant interpretations of these authors’ works. The great poets, novelists, short story writers, playwrights, and philosophers of this period are frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. By organizing and reprinting commentary written on these authors, NCLC helps students develop valuable insight into literary history, promotes a better understanding of the texts, and sparks ideas for papers and assignments. Each entry in NCLC presents a comprehensive survey of an author’s career or an individual work of literature and provides the user with a multiplicity of interpretations and assessments. Such variety allows students to pursue their own interests; furthermore, it fosters an awareness that literature is dynamic and responsive to many different opinions.

Every fourth volume of NCLC is devoted to literary topics that cannot be covered under the author approach used in the rest of the series. Such topics include literary movements, prominent themes in nineteenth-century literature, literary reaction to political and historical events, significant eras in literary history, prominent literary anniversaries, and the literatures of cultures that are often overlooked by English-speaking readers.

NCLC continues the survey of criticism of world literature begun by Thomson Gale’s Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).

An NCLC entry consists of the following elements:

1994. Copyright © 1994 State University of New York. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the State University of New York Press.—Parrinder, Patrick. From Authors and Authority: English and American Criticism 1750-1990. Macmillan, 1991. Copyright © Chapters 1-4 Patrick Parrinder 1977, 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.—Pease, Allison. From Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Copyright © Allison Pease 2000. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.— Peschel, Enid Rhodes. From an introduction to Four French Symbolist Poets: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarme. Translated by Enid Rhodes Peschel. Ohio University Press, 1981. Translations copyright © 1981 by Enid Rhodes Peschel. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of Enid Rhodes Peschel.—Porter, Laurence M. From The Crisis of French Symbolism. Cornell University Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Cornell University. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Cornell University Press.—Schulte-Sasse, Jochen. From “The Concept of Literary Criticism in German Romanticism,” in A History of German Literary Criticism, 1730-1980. Edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl. University of Nebraska Press, 1988. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH in Stuttgart 1985. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Scott, Clive. From “The Poetry of Symbolism and Decadence,” in Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siècle: French and European Perspectives. Edited by Patrick Mc-Gunness. University of Exeter Press, 2000. Copyright © University of Exeter Press 2000. Reproduced by permission.— Wellek, René. From A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: The Romantic Age. Yale University Press, 1955. Copyright © 1955, by Yale University Press. Renewed 1983 by René Wellek. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Wellek, René. From “The Term and Concept of Symbolism in Literary History” in Aspects of the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Earl R. Wasserman. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of Johns Hopkins University Press.—Wheeler, Kathleen M. From “Coleridge and Modern Critical Theory,” in Coleridge’s Theory of Imagination Today. Edited by Christine Gallant. AMS Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by AMS PRESS, INC. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wimsatt, William K., Jr. From Literary Criticism: A Short Story. Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Copyright © William K. Wimsatt, Jr. and Cleanth Brooks, 1957. Renewed 1985 by Margaret Wimsatt. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of William K Wimsatt, Jr.