Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 136

Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the 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 MATERIAL IN NCLC, VOLUME 136, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, v. 5, April, 1974 for “Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Abolitionist” by Barbara Taylor Paul-Emile. Copyright © 1974 by The Board of Governors, The University of Calgary. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—CLA Journal, v. 38, September, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by The College Language Association. Used by permission of The College Language Association.—Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, v. 33, spring, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Texas Tech University Press. Reproduced by permission.—English Language History, v. 61, summer, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—European Romantic Review, v. 4, winter, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by European Romantic Review. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis, Ltd.—Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, v. XVIII, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Frontiers Editorial Collective. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.—Papers on Language and Literature, v. 2, spring, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v. 25, 1996; v. 26, 1997. Copyright © 1996, 1997 Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. Both reproduced by permission.—Wordsworth Circle, v. 27, spring, 1996. Copyright © 1996 Marilyn Gaull. Reproduced by permission of the editor.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN NCLC, VOLUME 136, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Blair, Andrea. From “Landscape in Drag: The Paradox of Feminine Space in Susan Warner’s ‘The Wide, Wide World,’” in The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment. Edited by Steven Rosendale. University of Iowa Press, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by the University of Iowa Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Bryson, Michael A. From Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. The University Press of Virginia, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Buell, Lawrence. From American Literary History. Oxford University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Publisher and the author.—Donovan, Josephine. From “Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Reading the Orange,” in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy. Edited by Greta Gaard and Patrick D. Murphy. University of Illinois Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Eagleton, Terry. From The Function of Criticism: From ‘The Spectator’ to Post-Structuralism. Verso, 1984. Copyright © Terry Eagleton 1984. Reproduced by permission.—Ferguson, Moira. From Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Copyright © 1992 by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books and the author.—Fisch, Audrey A. From American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000, Audrey A. Fisch. Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press.— Hoyer, Mark T. From “Cultivating Desire, Tending Piety: Botanical Discourse in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘The Minister’s Wooing,’” in Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism. Edited by Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace. University Press of Virginia, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hyder, Clyde K. From an Introduction to Swinburne as Critic. Edited by Clyde K. Hyder. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. Copyright © Clyde K. Hyder 1972. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the Literary Estate of the author.—Kaminsky, Alice R. From an Introduction to Literary Criticism of George Henry Lewes. Edited by Alice R. Kaminsky. University of Nebraska Press, 1964. Copyright © 1964 by the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright renewed 1992 by the University of Nebraska Press. All rights reserved. Repro

duced by permission.—Kolodny, Annette. From The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860. The University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by The University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Publisher and the author.—Littenberg, Marcia B. From “Gender and Genre: A New Perspective on Nineteenth-Century Women’s Nature Writing,” in Such News of the Land: U. S Women Nature Writers. Edited by Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. DeWolfe. University Press of New England, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by University Press of New England. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Oldfield, J. R. From Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: The Mobilisation of Public Opinion Against the Slave Trade 1787-1807. Manchester University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by J. R. Oldfield. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Parrinder, Patrick. From Authors and Authority: English and American Criticism, 1750-1990. Macmillan, 1991. Copyright © Patrick Parrinder 1977, 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Palgrave Macmillan and Columbia University Press.—Rice, C. Duncan. From Anti-Slavery, Religion, and Reform: Essays in Memory of Roger Anstey. Wm. Dawson & Sons, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Wm. Dawson & Sons. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Richardson, Kelly L. From “‘A Happy Rural Seat of Various Views’: The Ecological Spirit in Sarah Orne Jewett’s ‘The Country of Pointed Firs’ and the Dunnet Landing Stories,” in Such News of the Land: U. S. Women Nature Writers. Edited by Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. DeWolfe. University Press of New England, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by University Press of New England. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Thomas, Helen. From Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Helen Thomas. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press.—Trilling, Lionel. From Matthew Arnold. Columbia University Press, 1949. Copyright © 1939, 1949, by Lionel Trilling. Renewed 1976 by Mrs. Diana Trilling. Reproduced by permission.—Warren, Jr., Alba H. From English Poetic Theory, 1825-1865. Princeton University Press, 1950. Copyright, 1950, by Princeton University Press. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of the author.—Wellek, René. From A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: The Age of Transition. Yale University Press, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Yale University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wellek, René. From A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: The Later Nineteenth Century. Yale University Press, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Yale University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Westling, Louise H. From The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction. The University of Georgia Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the University of Georgia Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wimsatt, William K., Jr. From “Art for Art’s Sake,” in Literary Criticism: A Short History. Edited by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Cleanth Brooks. 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 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., a division of Random House, Inc.—Wimsatt, William K., Jr. From “The Arnoldian Prophecy,” in Literary Criticism: A Short History. Edited by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Cleanth Brooks. 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 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., a division of Random House, Inc.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN NCLC, VOLUME 136, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Fuller, Margaret, painting by John Plumbe. The Library of Congress.—Illustration from The Interesting Narrative of The Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African, by Olaudah Equiano. Edited by Angelo Costanzo. The Library of Congress.—Pater, Walter (Horatio), author portrait, circa 1890s. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London.— Swinburne, Algernon Charles, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Wollstonecraft, Mary. Title page from Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Special Collections Library, University of Michigan. Reproduced by permission.—Women along the Kansas River, Douglas County, Lawrence, Kansas, in 1878, photograph. Kansas Collection. Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.

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