Andrew Lang
Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect
- Hardcover
300 pages
- Release Date
20 September 2023
Summary
In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the fields of social anthropology, folklore, Homeric studies, history, and religion, while simultaneously turning out novels, poems for periodicals, and inexhaustible columns of prose journalism to make money. He was widely regarded as one of the mos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192866875 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0192866877 |
| Author: | Dr John Sloan |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Release Date: | 20 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 558g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 160mm x 242mm |
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Critics Review
A good biography helps shed light on the lives of a particular individual, but a great biography also sheds light on the time period and culture that the individual lived in. Sloan’s Andrew Lang is a great biography. * Choice *
Andrew Lang brings to light long-neglected areas of Lang’s life and work, revealing topics of research that will inform scholarship for years to come. * Anna McCullough, Forum for Modern Language Studies *
Nearly eighty years after Roger Lancelyn Green’s critical biography, Sloan is to be applauded for making an impressively well researched case for why we should still be reading Lang. * Caroline Sumpter, Victorian Studies *
This invaluable and longâoverdue introduction to one of the most significant figures in our early disciplinary development is extremely welcome. * Paul Cowdell, Folklore Journal *
Dr John Sloan
John Sloan was born in Scotland. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford and was C.U.F. Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Harris Manchester, Oxford, where he is now an Emeritus Fellow.
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