ABSTRACT

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

chapter |29 pages

Introduction

part |8 pages

Sense and Sensibility

chapter 1|4 pages

Unsigned review, Critical Review

February 1812, n.s.4, i, 149–57

chapter 2|1 pages

Unsigned notice, British Critic

May 1812, xxxix, 527

part |8 pages

Pride and Prejudice

chapter 3|1 pages

Unsigned notice, British Critic

February 1813, xli, 189–90

chapter 4|4 pages

Unsigned review, Critical Review

March 1813, 4th series, iii, 318–24

part |9 pages

Mansfield Park

chapter 5b|2 pages

Opinions of Mansfield Park recorded by Jane Austen in her correspondence 1814–16

All page references are to the Letters edited by R.W. Chapman.

chapter 6|1 pages

Miss Mitford on Jane Austen

1814

part |30 pages

Emma

chapter 8|10 pages

Walter Scott, an unsigned review of Emma, Quarterly Review

Dated October 1815, issued March 1816, xiv, 188–201

chapter 9|1 pages

Unsigned notice, Literary Panorama

June 1816, n.s. vi, 418

chapter 10|1 pages

Unsigned notice, Monthly Review

July 1816, lxxx, 320

chapter 11|1 pages

Unsigned notice, British Critic

July 1816, n.s. vi, 96–98

chapter 12|1 pages

Unsigned notice, Gentleman's Magazine

September 1816, lxxxvi, 248–9

chapter 13|6 pages

Henry Austen: The Biographical Notice

1817

part |181 pages

Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

chapter 14|5 pages

Unsigned review, British Critic 1

March 1818, n.s. ix, 293–301

chapter 15|2 pages

Henry Crabb Robinson on Jane Austen

1819, 1822, 1839, 1842

chapter 16|16 pages

Whately on Jane Austen

1821

chapter 17|1 pages

Scott on Jane Austen

1822, 1826, 1827

chapter 18|6 pages

A Novelist of the Age

1823

chapter 19|1 pages

Sober Sketches

1824

chapter 20|2 pages

The Superior Novelist

1830

chapter 21|2 pages

The Novels

1833

chapter 22|2 pages

Some Views of the 1830s

chapter 23|2 pages

Macready on Jane Austen

1834, 1836

chapter 24|1 pages

A Poetic Tribute

1835

chapter 25|1 pages

Jane Austen and Harriet Martineau

1839

chapter 26|2 pages

Macaulay on Jane Austen

1843

chapter 27|2 pages

G.H. Lewes on Jane Austen

1847

chapter 28|3 pages

Charlotte Brontë on Jane Austen

1848, 1850

chapter 29|2 pages

An American View

1849

chapter 30|1 pages

Lewes: Jane Austen as a ‘Prose Shakespeare’

1851

chapter 31|8 pages

The mid-century view

1852

chapter 32|2 pages

Lewes: Jane Austen the ‘artist’

1852

chapter 33|2 pages

Jane Austen in America

1853

chapter 34|2 pages

Unelevating Jane Austen

1853

chapter 35|1 pages

Unelevating Jane Austen again

1854

chapter 36|16 pages

Lewes: The great appraisal

1859

chapter 37|7 pages

W.F. Pollock on Jane Austen

1860

chapter 38|2 pages

Lewes: a note on Jane Austen's artistic economy

1860

chapter 39|18 pages

Julia Kavanagh on Jane Austen

1862

chapter 40|2 pages

Jane Austen and George Eliot

1866

chapter 41|12 pages

The Victorian ‘society’ view

1866

chapter 42|9 pages

Mrs. Oliphant on Jane Austen

1870

chapter 43|12 pages

The Victorian ‘historical’ View

1870

chapter 44|21 pages

Richard Simpson on Jane Austen

1870