Horace Walpole : the critical heritage / edited by Peter Sabor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabor, Peter, editor.

Series:

Critical heritage series.

The Critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Criticism and interpretation.

Walpole, Horace.

Horror tales, English--History and criticism.

Horror tales, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (592 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Summary:

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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); 1. Unsigned notice, Monthly Review, May 1757; 2. Unsigned review, Journal encyclopédique, June 1757; A Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors (1758); 3. Owen Ruffhead, unsigned review, Monthly Review, December 1758; 4. Unsigned review, Gentleman's Magazine, January 1759; 5. Edmund Burke, unsigned review, Annual Register for 1758, March 1759

6. George Osborn (?), unsigned pamphlet, Remarks on Mr. Walpole's Catalogue, 17597. Henry Headley, essay in Fugitive Pieces, 1785; Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762-80); 8. William Shenstone, two letters to Thomas Percy and Richard Graves, April (?) and November 1762; 9. William Kenrick, two unsigned reviews, Monthly Review, April 1762 and April 1764; 10. Edmund Burke, unsigned review, Annual Register for 1762, March 1763; 11. Unsigned review, Critical Review, December 1780; 12. Paul-Henry Maty, unsigned review, New Review, June 1782; 13. Unsigned review, Retrospective Review, 1827

A Catalogue of Engravers (1764)14. Unsigned review, Critical Review, February 1764; 15. William Kenrick, unsigned notice, Monthly Review, April 1764; The Castle of Otranto (1765); 16. Walpole's Prefaces to the first and second editions, December 1764 and April 1765; 17. Walpole, letter to William Cole, March 1765; 18. (a) Gilly Williams, letter to George Selwyn, March 1765; (b) William Mason, letter to Walpole, April 1765; 19. Two unsigned reviews, Critical Review, January and June 1765; 20. John Langhorne, two unsigned reviews, Monthly Review, February and May 1765

21. Friedrich Melchior Grimm on a French translation, in Historical and Literary Memoirs, 176722. William Warburton, a note in his edition of The Works of Alexander Pope, 1770; 23. Clara Reeve, Preface to The Old English Baron, 1778; 24. Ann Yearsley, 'On Reading The Castle of Otranto', December 1784; 25. Eleanor Fenn, two papers in 'Mrs. TeachwellY The Female Guardian, 1784; 26. Thomas Green, Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature, February 1797; 27. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Introduction to The Castle of Otranto, 1810; 28. Walter Scott, Introduction to The Castle of Otranto, 1811

29. John Dunlop, The History of Fiction, 181430. William Hazlitt, Lectures on the Comic Writers, 1819; A Letter from the King of Prussia to Rousseau (1766); 31. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, letter to the Editor, St. James's Chronicle, April 1766; 32. Two pseudonymous letters to the Editor, St. James's Chronicle, November-December 1766; 33. Grimm on Walpole and Rousseau, 1766; An Account of the Giants Lately Discovered (1766); 34. Unsigned review, Critical Review, August 1766; 35. Unsigned review, Monthly Review, September 1766; 36. Unsigned review, Journal encyclopédique, December 1766

Historie Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third (1768)

Notes:

Reprinted in 1995, 1997, 1999 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-342) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-136-17217-3

0-415-86785-1

1-315-00451-8

1-136-17210-6

9781315004518

OCLC:

863822142