1st Edition

E.S. Dallas in The Times

Edited By Graham Law, Jenny Bourne Taylor Copyright 2024
524 Pages
by Routledge

524 Pages
by Routledge

This volume comprises of a substantial selection of E.S. Dallas’s journalism in The Times. Although his reviews were crucial not only in forging the literary reputations of upcoming writers such as different as George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, but also in recalibrating the response to well-established authors such as Tennyson and Dickens, Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1827-79) remains arguably... Read more

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Figures

Introduction

Dallas as Expatriate

Dallas as Journalist

Dallas as Critic

Chronology of the Life and Career of E. S. Dallas

Chronological Listing of All Confirmed Contributions to The Times by E.S. Dallas

Works Cited

Select Anthology of E.S. Dallas’s Times Contributions

Part 1. Literary Reviews

1. Maud and Other Poems

2. New Novels [Catherine Gore / Anthony Trollope]

3. Translations from Goethe

4. Tales from the Norse

5. Adam Bede

6. Anthony Trollope

7. Idylls of the King

8. The Mill on the Floss

9. The Woman in White

10. West Highland Tales

11. Silas Marner

12. Great Expectations

13. Lady Audley's Secret

14. Mr. Thackeray's Last Novel

15. Reviews of Six Extra Christmas Numbers of All the Year Round, 1862-1867

15. Somebody’s Luggage (1862)

16. Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings (1863)

17. Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy (1864)

18. Dr. Marigold’s Prescriptions (1865)

19. Mugby Junction (1866)

20. No Thoroughfare (1867)

21. New Novels [Wilkie Collins/ Ellen Wood]

22. Shakesperian Studies

23. Novels in Season [Charles Reade / Mary Braddon]

24. Essays on Fiction

25. Novels [Margaret Oliphant / Mary Braddon]

26. Modern Poets

27. Our Mutual Friend

28. Felix Holt

29. Sabina

30. George Eliot’s Poem

B. Non-Literary Reviews

31. Gothic Architecture

32. Scottish Philosophy

33. Ancient Pottery and Porcelain

34. Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy

35. Miss Nightingale’s Notes

36. Sir H. Holland’s Essays

37. Industrial Biography

38. Bee-Keeping

39. Woman’s Work

40. The Tonic Treatment of Diseases

Part 3. Others (Leaders, Articles, Obituaries, Reports)

41. Two Leaders from 1857

42. The Native Languages of India

43. Two Articles on the Visual and Plastic Arts

44. The Late Lord Macaulay

45. The Late Prince Consort

46. Reported Death of Lord Elgin

47. The Great French Exhibition

48. Inside Paris

 

Biography

Graham Law is Professor in Media History at Waseda University. Jenny Bourne Taylor is Professor Emerita in Victorian Literature at the University of Sussex.