1st Edition

Walter Pater The Critical Heritage

Edited By R.M. Seiler Copyright 1996
    466 Pages
    by Routledge

    466 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 students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels.
    The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.
    Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
    The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

    PREFACE, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE, INTRODUCTION, NOTE ON THE TEXT, 'The Renaissance', 'Marius the Epicurean', Imaginary Portraits', 'Appreciations', 'Plato and Platonism', Obituary Notices and Tributes, Posthumous Publications, 'Greek Studies', 'Miscellaneous Studies', 'Gaston de Latour', 'Essays from The Guardian', The Edition de Luxe, 'Essays from The Guardian', The Library Edition, Select Bibliography, Index

    Biography

    R.M. Seiler