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 student and researcher to read the work themselves.
Introduction; Note on the Text; Chapter 1 Alexander Carlyle on Smollett; Chapter 2 Tobias Smollett, Preface to The Adventures of Roderick Random; Chapter 3 Catherine Talbot, Letter; Chapter 4 The Earl of Orrery on Roderick Random; Chapter 5 ‘An Oxford Scholar’ on Roderick Random; Chapter 6 The Gentleman’s Magazine XIX,; Chapter 7, John Cleland], Review of the Regicide; Chapter 8 Samuel Johnson in The Rambler; Chapter 9 Samuel Richardson, Letter; Chapter 10 Samuel Richardson, Letter; Chapter 11, Francis Coventry], From An Essay on the New Species of Writing; Chapter 12 Unsigned Review of Hill’s Lady Frail; Chapter 13 Unsigned Review of Peregrine Pickle; Chapter 14 Unsigned Review of Peregrine Pickle; Chapter 15 Thomas Gray, a Letter to Horace Walpole on Peregrine Pickle; Chapter 16, Dr John Hill], from A Parallel between the Characters of Lady Frail, and the Lady of Quality in Peregrine Pickle; Chapter 17 Anonymous Verses on Lady Vane; Chapter 18 Horace Walpole on Lady Vane 13; Chapter 19 Dr John Hill on Lady Vane and Smollett; Chapter 20, Matthew Maty], Review of Peregrine Pickle; Chapter 21 Lady Henrietta Luxborough, Letters; Chapter 22 Anonymous verses on Lady Vane; Chapter 23 Elizabeth Montague on Peregrine Pickle; Chapter 24, Henry Fielding] in The Covent-Garden Journal; Chapter 25, Tobias Smollett], Habbakkuk Hilding’s Faithful Narrative; Chapter 26, Bonnell Thornton], from Have at You All; Chapter 27, Bonnell Thornton], from Have at You All; Chapter 28, William Kenrick], from Fun; Chapter 29 Henry Fielding on Authorial Propriety; Chapter 30 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letter; Chapter 31 Mary Granville Delany, Letter; Chapter 32 Smollett’s Dedication to Ferdinand Count Fathom; Chapter 33 Unsigned Review of Ferdinand Count Fathom; Chapter 34 Mary Granville Delany, Letters; Chapter 35 A French Bookseller’s View of Peregrine Pickle; Chapter 36 Élie Catherine Fréron on a French Translation of Peregrine Pickle; Chapter 37 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letter; Chapter 38
