Horace Walpole

The Critical Heritage

Peter Sabor

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780415134361
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136172175
• Topic: Literature
• 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 wroiter's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.

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The index is divided into four parts: I Authors, Periodicals, and Anonymous Works Quoted from or Cited; II Authors Compared or Related to Walpole; III Walpole’s Works; IV Selected Topics of Walpole Criticism.

I Authors, Periodicals, And Anonymous Works Quoted From or Cited

Adams, C. Kingsley, iconography of W, 22–23

American Quarterly Review, on letters and memoirs, 20

Annual Register: review of Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, 31–32; review of Anecdotes of Painting, 47–48

Athenaeum, on Strawberry Hill sale, 21

Barbauld, Anna Laetitia: on Castle of Otranto, 14, 86–88; on Strawberry Hill, 87

Barker, G.F. Russell, edits memoirs, 12

Barrell, Rex A., on W and France, 23

Beauclerk, Lady Diana, illustrates Mysterious Mother, 304

Beloe, William: on W and Chatterton, 296–297; on Strawberry Hill, 296–298; anecdotes of W, 296–299; on Anecdotes of Painting, 297–298; on verse, 298–299

Bentley, Richard, edits letters to Mann, 10

Berry, Mary: edits Works, 8–9; discussed in Introduction, 19; on Strawberry Hill, 253, 267–268; on Works, 267; on W’s death and will, 267–269; replies to Macaulay, 331–339; edits letters from du Deffand, 334; on Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, 335; on Mysterious Mother, 339

Blakeway, J.B., on Walpoliana, 9

Boswell, James, on Johnson and W, 261–262

British Critic, review of letters to Montagu, 184–186

British Review, review of letters to Montagu and Cole, 192–201

Brooke, John, edits memoirs, 12

Broughton, John, on W and Chatterton, 157

Brydges, Samuel Egerton: on W’s reputation, 306–309; on Castle of Otranto, 307; on Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, 307; on Anecdotes of Painting, 307; on letters, 307; on memoirs, 308

Buchan, David Steuart Erskine, Earl of, on W and i...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• General Editor’s Preface
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Note on the Text
• Introduction
• A Letter from Xo Ho, a Chinese Philosopher at London (1757)
• A Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors (1758)
• Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762–80)
• A Catalogue of Engravers (1764)
• The Castle of Otranto (1765)
• A Letter from the King of Prussia to Rousseau (1766)
• An Account of the Giants Lately Discovered (1766)
• Historie Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third (1768)
• The Mysterious Mother (1768)
• An Essay on Modern Gardening (1780)
• Hieroglyphic Tales (1785)
• Walpole and Chatterton
• Walpole’s Letters
• Memoirs of King George II (1822)
• Strawberry Hill
• Biographical and General
• Bibliography
• Index