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The Selected Writings of Andrew Lang Volume II: Folklore, Mythology, Anthropology; Case Studies

136 Pages

by Routledge

136 Pages

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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,... Read more

Volume II: Folklore, Mythology, Anthropology (Case Studies)

Introduction to Volume II

‘The Aryan Races of Peru’, Macmillan’s Magazine, 1873

[Review of Charles Deulin, Contes du roi Gambrinus], The Academy, 1874

‘The Folk-Lore of France’, Folk-Lore Record, 1878

‘The Early History of the Family’, Contemporary Review, 1883

‘Anthropology and the Vedas’, Folk-Lore Journal, 1883

‘The "Kalevala"’, in his Custom and Myth, 1884, 1885

‘In the Wrong Paradise’, in his In the Wrong Paradise, 1886

‘On Books About Red Men’, in his Letters on Literature, 1889

‘The Wonders of Mexico’, in his The True Story Book, 3rd ed., 1893

‘Cinderella and the Diffusion of Tales’, Folk-Lore, 1893