The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, Volume 2 : : Literary Criticism, History, Biography / / Andrew Teverson, Leigh Wilson, Andrew Lang, Alexandra Warwick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Lang, Andrew,; Teverson, Andrew,; Warwick, Alexandra,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2015This second volume includes the most important examples of his literary journalism, his historical and his biographical writing. In these works, Lang engages with the most important literary critical issues of the period -- whether the novel is entertainment or art, the professionalization of writing, the function of fiction and criticism - and writes on some of the central literary figures of the century such as Tennyson, Dickens and Zola. In his writings on Scotland, history and biography too the selected work shows not only the complexity and inter-disciplinary nature of his own thought but illuminates contemporary debates on the nature of genius, on national identity and on historical method.Key Features: Unpublished archival materialCritical introductions to the major areas of his workFull explanatory notes

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Introduction to Volume 2 -- Chronology of the life and major works of Andrew Lang -- A Note on the Text -- Acknowledgements -- 1 CRITICS AND CRITICISM -- 2 REALISM, ROMANCE AND THE READING PUBLIC -- 3 ON WRITERS AND WRITING -- 4 SCOTLAND, HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY -- 5 THE BUSINESS AND INSTITUTIONS OF LITERARY LIFE -- APPENDIX: NAMES FREQUENTLY CITED BY LANG -- EXPLANATORY NOTES -- INDEX