1st Edition

George Meredith The Critical Heritage

Edited By Ioan Williams Copyright 1996
    552 Pages
    by Routledge

    550 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 the student and researcher to read the material themselves.

    Introduction; Part 1 Poems; Chapter 1 Unsigned review, Leader; Chapter 2 Unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 3 J. A. Heraud, Athenaeum; Chapter 4 W. M. Rossetti, Critic; Chapter 5 Charles Kingsley, Fraser’s Magazine; Part 2 The Shaving of Shagpat; Chapter 6 Unsigned review, Critic; Chapter 7 George Eliot, Leader; Chapter 8 G. H. Lewes, Saturday Review; Chapter 9 Unsigned review, Idler; Chapter 10 George Eliot, Westminster Review; Chapter 11 Unsigned review, New Quarterly Review; Part 3 Farina; Chapter 12 Unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 13 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 14 Unsigned notice, Critic; Chapter 15 Meredith, Westminster Review; Chapter 16 H. F. Chorley, Athenaeum; Part 4 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel; Chapter 17 Unsigned review, Leader; Chapter 18 Unsigned review, Critic; Chapter 19 G. E. Jewsbury, Athenaeum; Chapter 20 Unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 21 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 22 Unsigned review, Illustrated London News; Chapter 23 Samuel Lucas, The Times; Chapter 24 Unsigned review, Westminster Review; Part 5 Evan Harrington; Chapter 25 Unsigned review, Spectator; Chapter 26 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Part 6 Modern Love and other Poems; Chapter 27 R. H. Hutton, Spectator; Chapter 28 A. C. Swinburne, a reply to R. H. Hutton, Spectator; Chapter 29 J. W. Marston, Athenaeum; Chapter 30 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Part 7 Sandra Belloni; Chapter 31 Richard Garnett, Reader; Chapter 32 G. E. Jewsbury, Athenaeum; Chapter 33 Mrs Hardman, Saturday Review; Chapter 34 Unsigned review, Westminster Review; Chapter 35 Unsigned review, Examiner; Chapter 36 Justin M‘Carthy, an early appreciation; Part 8 Rhoda Fleming; Chapter 37 J. C. Jeaffreson, Athenaeum; Chapter 38 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 39 Unsigned review, Westminster Review; Part 9 Vittoria; Chapter 40 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 41 G. E. Jewsbury, Athenaeum; Part 10 The Adventures of Harry Richmond; Chapter 42 A. J. Butler, Athenaeum; Chapter 43 Unsigned review, Examiner; Chapter 44 R. H. Hutton, Spectator; Chapter 45 Unsigned review, Westminster Review; Chapter 46 Unsigned notice, Vanity Fair; Chapter 47 Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Part 11 Beauchamp’s Career; Chapter 48 A. J. Butler, Athenaeum; Chapter 49 Review, Examiner; Chapter 50 A. I. Shand, The Times; Chapter 51 R. F. Littledale, Academy; Chapter 52 Unsigned review, Canadian Monthly; Chapter 53 J. C. Carr, Saturday Review; Chapter 54 James Thomson, Secularist; Chapter 55 Arabella Shore, an early appreciation; Part 12 The Egoist; Chapter 56 Unsigned review, Examiner; Chapter 57 W. E. Henley, Athenaeum; Chapter 58 R. H. Hutton, Spectator; Chapter 59 W. E. Henley, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 60 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 61 W. E. Henley, Academy; Chapter 62 James Thomson, Cope’s Tobacco Plant; Chapter 63 Unsigned review, New Quarterly Magazine; Chapter 64 Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; Part 13 Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth; Chapter 65 Unsigned review, St. James’s Gazette; Chapter 66 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 67 Mark Pattison, Academy; Chapter 68 Alice Meynell, Merry England; Chapter 69 W. P. Ker, Contemporary Review; Part 14 Diana of the Crossways; Chapter 70 W. E. Henley, Athenaeum; Chapter 71 C. Monkhouse, Saturday Review; Chapter 72 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 73 Unsigned review, Illustrated London News; Chapter 74 F. V. Dickins, Spectator; Chapter 75 Arthur Symons, Time; Chapter 76 Unsigned review, The Times; Chapter 77 W. L. Courtney on Meredith’s claims to eminence; Part 15 Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life; Chapter 78 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 79 W. E. Henley, Athenaeum; Chapter 80 Unsigned review, Westminster Review; Chapter 81 G. P. Baker, Jnr, on Meredith as a Philosophical Novelist; Chapter 82 Meredith’s reply to G. P. Baker; Chapter 83 George Moore on Meredith in Confessions of a Young Man; Chapter 84 Oscar Wilde on Meredith; Chapter 85 William Watson, an attack on Meredith; Chapter 86 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Meredith’s ‘audacious genius’; Chapter 87 Richard Le Gallienne’s reply to Watson; Part 16 One of Our Conquerors; Chapter 88 Unsigned review, Anti-Jacobin; Chapter 89 H. S. Wilson, Athenaeum; Chapter 90 Unsigned review, The Times; Chapter 91 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 92 J. A. Noble, in Spectator; Chapter 93 Lionel Johnson, in the Academy; Part 17 The Empty Purse; Chapter 94 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 95 Meredith as a story-teller; Part 18 Lord Ormont and His Amint; Chapter 96 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 97 Lionel Johnson, in Academy; Chapter 98 J. Stuart, in Athenaeum; Chapter 99 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 100 J. A. Noble, in Spectator; Chapter 101 Review, Bookman; Chapter 102 Henry James on Lord Ormont, from a letter to Edmund Gosse,; Chapter 103 Unsigned review, Cosmopolitan (New York); Chapter 104 Unsigned review, Literary World (Boston); Chapter 105 H. M. Cecil on Meredith at his best and worst; Part 19 The Amazing Marriage; Chapter 106 Edmund Gosse, in St. James’s Gazette; Chapter 107 B. Williams, from a review in the Athenaeum; Chapter 108 Alice Meynell, Illustrated London News; Chapter 109 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 110 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette; Chapter 111 Unsigned review, Bookman; Chapter 112 W. E. Garrett Fisher, from a review in the Academy; Chapter 113 J. A. Noble, Spectator; Chapter 114 J. M. Robertson on Meredith’s ‘preciosity’; Chapter 115 Arthur Symons on Meredith as a decadent; Part 20 Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History; Chapter 116 Francis Thompson, Academy; Chapter 117 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 118 Unsigned review, Literature; Chapter 119 Owen Seaman, Athenaeum; Part 21 A Reading of Life; Chapter 120 Unsigned review, Academy; Chapter 121 Unsigned review, Saturday Review; Chapter 122 Arthur Symons, Athenaeum; Chapter 123 S. P. Sherman on Meredith’s historical importance; Chapter 124 Meredith in perspective; Chapter 125 A Final Appreciation; Chapter 126 H. G. Wells on One of Our Conquerors in The New Machiavelli;

    Biography

    Ioan Willams