ABSTRACT

The Critical Review brings together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

chapter |158 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|2 pages

Critical Views

1869

chapter 2|3 pages

R.H. Hutton on the Memoir

1869

chapter 3|6 pages

Anne Thackeray on Jane Austen

1871

chapter 4|3 pages

Hutton on the minor works

1871

chapter 6|1 pages

‘of the second order’

1882

chapter 7|3 pages

Pellew’s ‘new criticism’

From Jane Austen’s Novels (Boston) 1883

chapter 8|1 pages

‘narrow unconscious perfection of form’

1883

chapter 9|7 pages

The art of Jane Austen

1885

chapter 10|1 pages

‘maiden lady realism’

1888

chapter 11|1 pages

Austenolatry

1889

chapter 12|2 pages

‘no hidden meaning’

1890

chapter 13|3 pages

‘the modernness of her method’

1890

chapter 14|4 pages

‘The Charm of Miss Austen’

1890

chapter 15|4 pages

The ‘provincial’ Jane Austen

1891

chapter 16|2 pages

Realism and ‘entire truthfulness’

1891

chapter 17|10 pages

Agnes Repplier on Jane Austen

1889–1931

chapter 19|4 pages

‘mistress of derision’

1894

chapter 20|1 pages

‘the greatest of them all’

1895

chapter 21|6 pages

The heroines

1900–1

chapter 22|2 pages

Henry James on Jane Austen

1905–14

chapter 23|2 pages

Mark Twain on Jane Austen

1896-c1909

chapter 24|6 pages

A.C. Bradley on Jane Austen

1911

chapter 25|1 pages

‘complete common sense’

1913

chapter 26|5 pages

‘her greatness as an artist’

1913

chapter 27|27 pages

Farrer on Jane Austen

1917

chapter 29|1 pages

‘such cool perceptions’

1922

chapter 30|2 pages

‘waking the Jane Austenite up’

1924

chapter 31|3 pages

‘the forerunner of Henry James and of Proust’

1923/25

chapter 32|2 pages

‘Novels preeminently of character’

1925

chapter 33|2 pages

‘the spirit of comedy’

1926

chapter 34|1 pages

‘a great little novelist’

1927/28

chapter 35|2 pages

The style of the ‘essayist’

1928

chapter 36|1 pages

‘this comic patronage of Jane Austen’

1928

chapter 37|1 pages

The ‘Divine Jane’ lives on

1932

chapter 38|5 pages

‘the feminism of Jane Austen’

1932

chapter 39|2 pages

‘sense’ and ‘sensibility’

1936

chapter 40|2 pages

‘she shocks me’

1937

chapter 41|2 pages

Miscellanea

1871–1938