Daniel Defoe

The Critical Heritage

Pat Rogers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134546589
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• General Editor's Preface
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Note on the Text
• 1. Contemporary comments on Defoe
• 2 Pope, Swift and the Scriblerians on Defoe
• 3 A satire on Robinson Crusoe
• 4 A biographic entry
• 5 The mid-century view
• 6 Rousseau on Robinson Crusoe
• 7 The close of the century
• 8 Dr Johnson on Defoe
• 9 James Beattie on the ‘new romance'
• 10 Hugh Blair on Defoe
• 11 The beginnings of serious study
• 12 Scott on Defoe's life and works
• 13 Coleridge on Robinson Crusoe
• 14 Charles Lamb on The Complete English Tradesman and the ‘secondary' novels
• 15 Carlyle on Homer, Richardson and Defoe
• 16 A major study
• 17 Hazlitt on Defoe
• 18 Two reviews of Wilson's Memoirs
• 19 Wordsworth on Robinson Crusoe
• 20 Two verse tributes by W. S. Landor
• 21 De Quincey on verisimilitude
• 22 John Forster on the Review and other matters
• 23 George Borrow discovers Crusoe
• 24 The novelist assessed
• 25 The climate of the fifties
• 26 Taine on Defoe
• 27 Karl Marx on Robinson Crusoe
• 28 Leslie Stephen on Defoe
• 29 The biographer's view
• 30 The legacy of Defoe
• 31 Victorian orthodoxy: style and narrative method
• 32 The Edinburgh Review on Defoe
• 33 The supremacy of Crusoe
• 34 William Minto on Defoe
• Appendix I: A Selectivb List of Contemporary Comments on Defoe's Work
• Appendix II: Defoe's Literary Career
• Bibliography
• Index