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Volume 152

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

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Preface

S
 ince its inception in 1981, Nineteeth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) has been a valuable resource for students and librarians seeking critical commentary on writers of this transitional period in world history. Designated an “Outstanding Reference Source” by the American Library Association with the publication of is first volume, NCLC has since been purchased by over 6,000 school, public, and university libraries. The series has covered more than 450 authors representing 33 nationalities and over 17,000 titles. No other reference source has surveyed the critical reaction to nineteenth-century authors and literature as thoroughly as NCLC.

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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.

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  • © The Author Heading cites the name under which the author most commonly wrote, followed by birth and death dates. Also located here are any name variations under which an author wrote, including transliterated forms for authors whose native languages use nonroman alphabets. If the author wrote consistently under a pseudonym, the pseudonym will be listed in the author heading and the author’s actual name given in parenthesis on the first line of the biographical and critical information. Uncertain birth or death dates are indicated by question marks. Singlework entries are preceded by a heading that consists of the most common form of the title in English translation (if applicable) and the original date of composition.
  • © The Introduction contains background information that introduces the reader to the author, work, or topic that is the subject of the entry.
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  • © The list of Principal Works is ordered chronologically by date of first publication and lists the most important works by the author. The genre and publication date of each work is given. In the case of foreign authors whose works have been translated into English, the list will focus primarily on twentieth-century translations, selecting

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    with permission of Stanford University Press, www.sup.org.—Halttunen, Karen. From Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870. Yale University Press, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Yale University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Jay, Paul. From Being in the Text: Self-Representation from Wordsworth to Roland Barthes. Cornell University Press, 1984. Copyright © 1985 by Cornell University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press.—Jelinek, Estelle C. From The Tradition of Women’s Autobiography: From Antiquity to the Present. Twayne Publishers, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Estelle C. Jelinek. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Kardux, Joke. From “The Politics of Genre, Gender, and Canon-Formation: The Early American Bildungsroman and Its Subversions,” in Rewriting the Dream: Reflections on the Changing American Literary Canon. Edited by W. M. Verhoeven. Rodopi, 1992. Copyright ©1992, Editions Rodopi B. V. Reproduced by permission.—Kontje, Todd. From The German Bildungsroman: History of a National Genre. Camden House, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Camden House Inc. All right reserved. Reproduced by permission of Boydell & Brewer Ltd.—Langland, Elizabeth. From Nobody’s Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture. Cornell University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Cornell University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press.—Mahoney, Dennis. From “The Apprenticeship of the Reader: The Bildungsroman of the &lsdquo;Age of Goethe,’ in Reflection and Action: Essays on the Bildungsroman. Edited by James N. Hardin. University of South Carolina Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 University of South Carolina Press. Reproduced by permission.—Martin, Jane Roland. From Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman. Yale University Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Yale University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Peterson, Linda H. From Victorian Autobiography: The Tradition of Self-Interpretation. Yale University Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Yale University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Redfield, Marc. From Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman. Cornell University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Cornell University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press and the author.—Schlesinger, Arthur M. From Learning How to Behave: A Historical Study of American Etiquette Books. Macmillan Company, 1946. Copyright, 1946, by Arthur M. Schlesinger. Renewed 1973 by Elizabeth B. Schlesinger, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Thomas B. Schlesinger. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the estate of Arthur M. Schlesinger.—Sklar, Kathryn Kish. From Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity. Yale University Press, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Yale University. Reproduced by permission.—Swales, Martin. From “Irony and the Novel: Reflections on the German Bildungsroman,” in Reflection and Action: Essays on the Bildungsroman. Edited by James N. Hardin. University of South Carolina Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 University of South Carolina. Reproduced by permission.—Swindells, Julia. From Victorian Writing and Working Women: The Other Side of Silence. University of Minnesota Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985, by Julia Swindells. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.

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    Beecher, Catherine Esther (1800-1878). The Granger Collection, New York.—Brontë, Charlotte, 1873, engraving. Archive Photos/Kean.—Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, photograph. Archive Photos.—Title page for the 1883 first edition of Anthony Trollope’s An Autobiography. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan.—Title page for a nineteenthcentury edition of A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding. Graduate Library, University of Michigan.

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