1st Edition

Sir Thomas Malory The Critical Heritage

Edited By Marylyn Parins Copyright 1996
    424 Pages
    by Routledge

    424 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 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.

    Introduction; Editions; Chapter 1 1. Caxton's preface; Chapter 2 Wynkyn de Worde Interpolation; Chapter 3 Tudor historians on Malory; Chapter 4 Renaissance views; Chapter 5 Two seventeenth-century comments; Chapter 6 Biographia Britannica; Chapter 7 Samuel Johnson; Chapter 8 Thomas Warton; Chapter 9 Sir Walter Scott; Chapter 10 Early nineteenth-century scholars and bibliographers; Chapter 11 The British Bibliographer; Chapter 12 Walker's British Classics; Chapter 13 Robert Southey; Chapter 14 Three literary historians; Chapter 15 Frederic Madden; Chapter 16 Thomas Wright; Chapter 17 Unsigned review of Wright's edition, Christian Examiner; Chapter 18 David Masson; Chapter 19 Unsigned review of Wright's edition, Blackwood's Magazine; Chapter 20 Unsigned review of Wright's edition, Dublin University Magazine; Chapter 21 James T.Knowles; Chapter 22 D.W.Nash; Chapter 23 George Perkins Marsh; Chapter 24 Herbert Coleridge; Chapter 25 F.J.Furnivall; Chapter 26 Samuel Cheetham; Chapter 27 Edward Conybeare; Chapter 28 Edward Strachey; Chapter 29 William Blake Odgers; Chapter 30 A.C.Swinburne and R.H.Hutton; Chapter 31 William Minto; Chapter 32 Harriet W.Preston; Chapter 33 Sidney Lanier; Chapter 34 George W.Cox; Chapter 35 Gaston Paris; Chapter 36 Ernest Rhys; Chapter 37 Brief References; Chapter 38 Edward R.Russell; Chapter 39 Frederick Ryland; Chapter 40 Bernhard Ten Brink; Chapter 41 H.Oskar Sommer; Chapter 42 Andrew Lang; Chapter 43 Reviews of Sommer's edition of Malory; Chapter 44 ‘An Arthurian Journey’, unsigned essay, Atlantic Monthly; Chapter 45 Strachey again; Chapter 46 Other nineteenth-century editors after Sommer; Chapter 47 Craik's English Prose Selections; Chapter 48 Mungo MacCallum; Chapter 49 W.E.Mead; Chapter 50 G.H.Maynadier; Chapter 51 George Saintsbury Index;

    Biography

    Marylyn Parins