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 the most unjustly neglected of mid-Victorian critics. Although Dallas wrote for many other periodicals, it was his reviews in The Times that had the greatest impact on both the market for books and literary culture in the mid-Victorian period. This collection brings together an anthology of his contributions, as well as a newly written introduction, a comprehensive listing of the articles he submitted to The Times, critical apparatus to contextualise the materials, and a detailed chronology, reappraising Dallas’ biography. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of literary history.
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.
