The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, Volume 1
Autor Andrew Lang Editat de Andrew Teverson, Alexandra Warwick, Leigh Wilsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 mai 2015
Anthropology: Fairy Tale, Folklore, the Origins of Religion, Psychical Research
Edited by Andrew Teverson, Alexandra Warwick and Leigh Wilson
This is the first critical edition of the works of Andrew Lang (1844-1912), the Scottish writer whose enormous output spanned the whole range of late-nineteenth century intellectual culture. Neglected since his death, partly because of the diversity of his interests and the volume of his writing, his cultural centrality and the interdisciplinary nature of his work make him a vital figure for contemporary scholars.
This volume covers Lang's wide and influential engagement with the central areas of late nineteenth-century anthropology. Lang made decisive interventions in debates around the meaning of folk tales and the origins of religion, as well as being an important figure in the investigation of spiritualist claims through psychical research. The work reproduced here includes journalism, essays, extracts from books and previously unpublished letters which together articulate and challenge some of the central ideas and discussions of the period, including evolution, the relation between modern and non-modern cultures, the nature of scientific claims to truth, and the consequences of materialism. The volume will provide new and illuminating ways of understanding and assessing the period for scholars across a range of disciplines, including those interested in the histories of the fairy story, of science, of the occult, of colonialism and of anthropology.
Key Features:
- Unpublished archival material
- Critical introductions to the major areas of his work
- Full explanatory notes
Alexandra Warwick is Professor of English Studies and Head of the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. Her research is on Victorian culture, in particular the fin de sicle.
Leigh Wilson is Reader in Modern Literature in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. Her research focuses on modernism, on the place of supernatural and occult beliefs and practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and on the contemporary British novel. She is the author of Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult (EUP, 2013).
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781474400213
ISBN-10: 1474400213
Pagini: 456
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN-10: 1474400213
Pagini: 456
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Descriere
This is the first critical edition of the works of Andrew Lang, the Scottish writer whose enormous output spanned the whole the range of late-nineteenth century intellectual culture: from literary criticism to anthropology, magic to archaeology, folklore to Scottish history.