Edited by Tom Hubbard. Associate Editor: Celeste Ray.
A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the 'colour' Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910. This three volume set presents a selection of his work in these areas. As a companion to the first volume, the second is comprised of various case studies made by Lang, ranging from 'The Aryan Races of Peru' and 'The Folk-lore of France' to 'Irish Fairies' and 'The Ballads, Scottish and English'.
Collectively, the General Introduction to the set and the Introductions to the individual volumes offer a thorough overview of Lang’s work in an astonishing variety of fields, including his translation work on Homer and his contributions to historiography (particularly Scottish). Headnotes to the individual items are of varying length and provide more detail on specific topics, and explanatory notes supply unique intellectual comment rather than merely factual information.
Author(s): Andrew Lang
Series: The Pickering Masters Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: XXII+114
Note on the texts vii
Introduction to Volume II ix
Folklore, mythology, anthropology 1
'The Aryan races of Peru', Macmillan’s Magazine, 1873 1
Review of Charles Deulin, 'Contes du roi Gambrinus', The Academy, 1874 4
'The Folk-Lore of France', Folk-Lore Record, 1878 7
'The early history of the family', Custom and Myth, 1884, revised 1885 13
'Anthropology and the Vedas', Folk-Lore Journal, 1883 27
'The 'Kalevala'', in his 'Custom and myth', 1884, 1885 33
'In the wrong paradise', in his 'In the wrong paradise', 1886 45
'On books about red men', in his 'Letters on literature', 1889 49
'The wonders of Mexico', in his 'The true story book', 3rd edn., 1893 53
'Cinderella and the diffusion of tales', Folk-Lore, 1893 57
'Irish Fairies', Illustrated London News, 1893 69
'A creelful of Celtic stories', Blackwood’s Magazine, 1898 72
'The ballads, Scottish and English', Chambers’s Cyclopedia of English Literature, vol. 1, 1903 81
'Notes on ballad Origins', Folk-Lore, 1903 89
Introduction to 'Australian legendary tales', K. Langloh Parker (ed.), 1894 91
Introduction to 'The Euahlayi tribe', K. Langloh Parker, 1905 94
'The Alcheringa and the all father', Revue des études ethnographiques et sociologiques, 1909 100
Introduction to 'Folk stories of Southern Nigeria', Elphinstone Dayrell, 1910 106
'The poltergeist mystery: Andrew Lang discusses phenomena which occur everywhere', New York Times, 1910 112
