CHARLES DICKENS. Critical Assessments. Edited by. Michael Hollington

CHARLES DICKENS Critical Assessments Edited by Michael Hollington VOLUME I Contemporary Assessments (Biographical and Critical) and General Assessments 1870^1945 (Biographical and Critical) < > HELM INFORMATION

Contents Volume I Contemporary Assessments (Biographical and Critical) and General Assessments 1870-1945 (Biographical and Critical) General Editor's Preface 1 Introduction 3 Chronology of Dickens's Life 19 Bibliography: Chronology of Dickens's Major Works 25 Bibliography: The Critical Response 27 Chronological List of Criticism Included 39 Acknowledgements 53 Contemporary Assessments (Biographical and Critical) General 1. JOHN FORSTER from The Life of Charles Dickens, London, 63 1874, pp. 1-50 (including CHARLES DICKENS, 'Autobiographical Fragment'). 2. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, from'a Pictorial 88 Rhapsody', Fraser's Magazine, July 1840, pp. 112-3. 3. WALT WHITMAN, 'Boz and Democracy', Brother Jonathan, 26 89 Feb. 1842. 4. R.H. HORNE, from 'Charles Dickens', A New Spirit of the Age, I, 94 London, 1844. 5. HARRIET MARTINEAU, from A History of the Thirty Years'Peace 102 1815-1846, London, 1849, VI, chap, xvi, and from Autobiography, London, 1877, II, pp. 378-9, written in 1855.

6. THOMAS POWELL, 'Charles Dickens', Pictures of the Living 104 Authors of Britain, London, 1851, pp. 88-98,103-115. 7. J.H. FRISWELL, 'Charles Dickens', Lives of the Illustrious, Dec. 118 1852, pp. 276-97. 8. Anonymous, 'Charles Dickens', The Ecclesiastic and Theologian, 149 Oct. 1855, pp. 467-77. 9. ANTHONYTROLLOPE, from The Warden, London, 1855, Ch. 159 XV. 10. JAMES FITZJAMES STEPHEN, from'mr Dickens as a 162 Politician', Saturday Review, 3 Jan. 1857. 11. WALTER BAGEHOT, from 'Charles Dickens', National Review, 167 VII, Oct. 1858, pp. 458-86. 12. Anonymous, review of The Collected Works of Charles Dickens, 193 The British Quarterly Review, ljan. 1862, pp. 135-59. 13. JOHN RUSKIN, from a letter to his father, 18 Jan. 1863. 215 14. EDWIN P. WHIPPLE, from 'The Genius of Dickens', Atlantic 216 Monthly, XIX, May 1867, pp. 546-54. 15. BENITO PEREZ GALD6S, 'Carlos Dickens', LaNacion, 9 224 March 1868, pp. 450-4. 16. EDMUND YATES, 'Mr. Charles Dickens's New Reading', 229 Tinsley'sMagazine, 1868, pp. 60-4. 17. GEORGE STOTT, from 'Charles Dickens', Contemporary 234 Review, X, Jan. 1869, pp. 203-25. Individual Works Early works 18. GEORGE HENRY LEWES?, from a review of Sketches by Boz, 245 Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, The National Magazine and Monthly Critic, I, Dec. 1837, pp. 445-9. 19. THOMAS HENRY LISTER, from a review of Sketches by Boz, 250 Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist, Edinburgh Review, LXVIII, Oct. 1838, pp. 75-97. Sketches by Boz 20. WALTER DEXTER, 'The Reception of Dickens's First Book', 256 TheDickensian, XXXII, 1936, pp. 43-50. 21. Anonymous, from a review, The Morning Post, 11 May 1836. 263 Pickwick Papers 22. Anonymous, from'some Thoughts on Arch-Waggery, and in 264 especial, on the Genius of "Boz"', Court Magazine, X, April 1837, pp. 184-7. viii

23. MARY RUSSELL MITFORD, from a letter to Miss Jephson, 30 266 June 1837. Sketches of Young Gentlemen 24. JOHN FORSTER, from a review of no. XV, Examiner, 2 July 267 1837, pp.421-2. Oliver Twist 25. Anonymous, from a review, Spectator, XI, 24 Nov. 1838, 269 pp. 1114-6. 26. RICHARD FORD, from a review, Quarterly Review, LXTV, June 271 1839, pp. 83-102. Nicholas Nickleby 27. Anonymous, from a review, 'Boz and his Nicholas Nickleby', 276 Spectator, XI, 31 March 1838, p. 304. 28. JOHN FORSTER, from a review, Examiner, 27 Oct. 1839, 278 pp. 677-8. The Old Curiosity Shop 29. THOMAS HOOD, review of Master Humphrey's Clock, The 282 Athenaeum, 7 Nov. 1840, pp. 884-9. Barnaby Budge 30. THOMAS HOOD, from a review, Athenaeum, 22 Jan. 1842, 289 pp. 77-9. Master Humphrey's Clock 31. EDGAR ALLAN POE, from a review, Graham's Magazine, XIX, 292 Feb.1842, pp. 124-9. American Notes 32. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, from his journal, 25 Nov. 1842. 298 33. JAMES SPEDDING, from a review, Edinburgh Review, LXXXVI, 299 Jan. 1843, pp.497-522. Martin Chuzzlewit 34. JOHN FORSTER, from a review, Examiner, XXVI, Oct. 1844, 304 pp. 675-7.

Pictures from Italy 35. Anonymous, from 'A Pictorial Rhapsody', The Patrician, 1846, 306 pp. 182-186. Christmas Books 36. N.U.S., from a review of R.H. Home's A New Spirit of the Age, 308 Westminster Review, XLIV, June 1844, pp. 374-7. A Christmas Carol 37. From an anonymous review, Dublin Review, Dec. 1843, 311 pp. 510-11. 38. Anonymous Review, Dublin University Magazine, XXIII (no. 313 136).April 1844. The Chimes 39. From an anonymous review, Christian Remembrancer, IX, Jan. 315 1845, pp.301-4. 40. JOHN FORSTER, from a review, Edinburgh Review, LXXXI, Jan. 318 1845, pp.181-9. The Cricket on The Hearth 41. From an anonymous review, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, n.s. 320 V, 17jan. 1846, pp. 44-8. The Battle of Life 42. COVENTRY PATMORE?, from ' Popular Serial Fiction, North 322 British Review, VII, May 1847, pp. 114-7. The Haunted Man 43. From an anonymous review, MacPhail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical 325 Journal, VI, Jan. 1849, pp. 423-31. Dombey and Son 44. LORD JEFFREY, from Letters to Dickens, from John Forster, 328 The Life of Dickens, London 1874 and from Lord Cockburn, Life of LordJeffrey, Edinburgh, 1852, ii, pp. 406-7, 428-9.

David Copper field 45. Anonymous, 'Charles Dickens and David Copperfield", Fraser's 331 Magazine, XLII, Dec. 1850, pp. 698-710. 46. DAVID MASSON, from 'Pendennis and Copperfield: Thackeray 336 and Dickens' North British Review, XV, May 1851, pp. 57-89. 47. WILLIAM THACKERAY, from a letter to David Masson, 6 (?) 346 May 1851. 48. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, from 'David Copperfield and Arthur 347 Pendennis', The Times, 11 June 1851, p. 8. Bleak House 49. GEORGE BRIMLEY, from a review, Spectator, XXVI, 24 Sept. 350 1853, pp.923-5. 50. JOHN FORSTER, from a review, Examiner, 8 Oct. 1853, 354 pp. 643-5. 51. JAMES AUGUSTINE STOTHERT, from 'Living Novelists', The 357 Rambler, n.s., I, Jan. 1854, pp. 41-51. 52. JOHN RUSKIN, from 'Fiction, Fair and Foul', Nineteenth 360 Century VII, June 1880, p. 945. Hard Times 53. Anonymous, from a review, Westminster Review, n.s. VI, Oct. 361 1854, pp.604-8. 54. MRS OLIPHANT, from 'Charles Dickens', Blhckwood's 364 Magazine, LXXVII, April 1855, pp. 451-66. 55. HIPPOLYTE TAINE, from 'Charles Dickens: son talent et ses 373 oeuvres', Revue des deuxmondes, n.s. 1,1 Feb. 1856, pp. 618-47. 56. GEORGE ELIOT, from'the Natural History of German Life', 378 Westminster Review, LXVI.July 1856, p. 55. 57. JOHN RUSKIN, from 'Unto this Last', CornhiUMagazine, II, 379 Aug. 1860, p. 159. '* 58. EDWIN P. WHIPPLE from an essay on Hard Times, Atlantic 380 Monthly, XXXIX, March 1877, pp. 353-58. Little Dorrit 59. Anonymous, from a review, The Leader, 27 June 1857, 386 pp. 616-7.

A Tale of Two Cities 60. JOHN FORSTER, from a review, Examiner, 10 Dec. 1859, 389 pp. 788-9. Great Expectations 61. Anonymous, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations', Eclectic 391 Review, Oct. 1861, pp. 458-477. 62. Anonymous, 'Mr Dickens's Last Novel', Dublin University 409 Magazine, LVIII, Dec. 1861, pp. 685-693. Our Mutual Friend 63. Anonymous, from a review, London Review, 28 Oct. 1865, 421 pp. 467-8. 64. Anonymous, 'Mr Dickens's Romance of a Dust-Heap', Eclectic 425 and Congregational Review, n.s. IX, Nov. 1865, pp. 455-76. 65. HENRYJAMES, review in The Nation, 21 Dec. 1865, pp. 786-7. 427 General Assessments 1870-1945 (Biographical and Critical) 66. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, from Charles Dickens, London, 435 1870, pp. 9-15, 27-8, and from Things I Have Known, London, 1894,1, pp. 72-79, 94-5,103-9,126,131-2. 67. R.H. HUTTON, from 'The Genius of Dickens', Spectator, 442 XLIII, 18June 1870, pp. 749-51. 68. JOHN RUSKIN, from a letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 19 June 446 1870. 69. ANTHONY TROLLOPE, 'Charles Dickens', St Paul's Magazine, 447 VI, July 1870, pp. 370-5. 70. J.C. HOTTEN, from Charles Dickens, London, 1870, p. 165. 453 71. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, 'Dickens in Relation to Criticism', 454 Fortnightly Review XVII, Feb. 1872, pp. 141-54. 72. ROBERT BUCHANAN, 'The Good Genie of Fiction', St Paul's 468 Magazine, 1872, pp. 119-40. 73. THOMAS CARLYLE, from a letter to John Forster, 16 February 480 1874. 74. GEORGE BARNETT SMITH, 'Charles Dickens', Gentleman's 481 Magazine, n.s. XII, March 1874, pp. 301-316. 75. WILHELM DILTHEY, 'Charles Dickens and the Genius of the 496 Narrative Writer', 1877 and later, from Hartmut Steinecke (ed), Romanpoetik in Deutschland: von Hegel bisfontane, Tubingen, 1984, pp. 197-202. xii

76. S. STJOHN TOPP, 'Charles Dickens', Melbourne Review, July 500 1881, pp.265-82. 77. ROBERT LANGTON, from The Childhood of Charles Dickens, 515 London, 1883, pp. 21-63. 78. SIGMUND FREUD, from a letter to Martha Bernays, 5 Oct. 532 1885. 79. R.A. PROCTOR, The CornhillMagazine, Jan. 1886, pp. 30-43. 533 80. LEO TOLSTOY, letters: (i) to V.G. Chertkov, 22 Feb. 1886; (ii) 545 to M.M. Lederle, 25 Oct. 1891; to James Ley, 21 Jan./3 Feb. 1904. 81. HERMAN MERTVALE, from 'With the Majority', Temple Bar, 548 June 1887, pp.181-195. 82. MONTAGUE GRIFFIN, from 'An Estimate of Dickens 555 as an Artist', The Irish Monthly, XXIV, Sept. 1896, pp. 490-8. 83. GEORGE GISSING, 'from Charles Dickens', London, 1898, 562 Chapter 8. 84. ANDREW LANG, 'Charles Dickens', Fortnightly Review, Dec. 573 1898, pp.944-960. 85. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, 'Charles Dickens', 590 Quarterly Review, CXCVI, July 1902, pp. 20-39. 86. ALICE MEYNELL,'Charles Dickens as a Man of Letters', 605 Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1903, pp. 52-9. 87. G.K. CHESTERTON, 'Dickens and Christmas', Charles Dickens, 615 London, 1906. 88. AUGUST STRINDBERG, from'on Criticism and the Art of 626 Acting' (1908/9). 89. G.K. CHESTERTON, 'Dickens as Socialist', The Illustrated 627 London News, 2 Jan. 1909. 90. JAMES JOYCE,'The Centenary of Charles Dickens', 1913, 631 from Louis Berrone (ed), James Joyce in Padua, 1977, pp. 33-7. 91. HENRYJAMES, from A Small Boy and Others, New York, 1913, 635 and from Notes of a Son and Brother, New York, 1914. 92. FRANZ KAFKA, from his Diaries, 8 October 1917. 638 93. KATHERINE MANSFIELD, from a review of The Gay-Dombeys by 639 Sir Harry Johnston, Athenaeum, 2 May 1919. 94. STEFAN ZWEIG, 'Dickens', Three Masters, London, 1931. 640 95. GEORGE SANTAYANA, 'Dickens', TheDial, LXXI, 1921, 664 pp. 537-9. 96. JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY, 'Dickens', Pencillings, London, 675 1923, pp.31-41. 97. ANDRE MAUROIS, 'The Philosophy of Dickens' Dickens, Paris, 678 1927 and London, 1934, pp. 149-82. xiii

98. THOMAS A. JACKSON, from Charles Dickens: theprogresas of a 692 Radical, London, 1937, pp. 7-56. 99. GEORGE ORWELL, 'Charles Dickens', Inside the Whale, 717 London, 1940. 100. EDMUND WILSON, 'Dickens: The Two Scrooges', The Wound 756 and the Bow, Boston, 1941, pp. 1-93. 101. HUMPHRYHOUSE, from TheDickens World, London, 1941, 809 pp. 48-58. 102. ELMER EDGAR STOLL, from From Shakespeare to Joyce, New 825 York, 1944, pp. 316-23. 103. EDWIN MUIR, The Structure of the Novel, London 1946, 831 pp. 80-7.