The Selected Writings of Andrew Lang

Volume III: Literary Criticism

Introduction to Volume III

General topics

'Realism and Romance', Contemporary Review, 1887

'Unhappy Marriages in Fiction', North American Review, 1889

'The Last Fashionable Novel', in his Essays in Little, 1891

'"Tendencies" in Fiction', North American Review, 1895

'The Supremacy of the Novelist', 1909, in Andrew Lang and St Andrews: a Centenary Anthology, 1944

French literature

'Alexandre Dumas', Scribner's Magazine, 1889

'Victor Hugo's Novels', in Notre Dame de Paris, The French Classical Romances, ed. Edmund Gosse, 1902

Introduction to Edmond About, The King of the Mountains, 1899

'French Novels and French Life', The North American Review, 1892

'Emile Zola', Fortnightly Review, 1882

[On Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac], Longman's Magazine, 1898

American literature

[On Washington Irving], in his History of English Literature from 'Beowulf' to Swinburne, 2nd ed., revised, 1912

'Brahma' [parody of the poem with the same title by R.W. Emerson], Daily News, 1888

'Edgar Allan Poe', The Independent (New York), 1899

'To Edgar Allan Poe', in his Letters to Dead Authors, 1889

'Nathaniel Hawthorne', in his Adventures Among Books, 1905

'Oliver Wendell Holmes', in his Adventures Among Books, 1905

[On Emily Dickinson: extracts from Lang's articles on her from the Daily News and the Illustrated London News during 1891.]

'American Humour', in his Lost Leaders, 1889

'The Art of Mark Twain', Illustrated London News, 1891

'To W.D.H.', Longman's Magazine, 1892

[On Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage], Longman's Magazine, 1896

Scottish literature

'Robert Burns', [introduction to] The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, 1896

'Scott', in his Poet's Country, 1907

Introduction to Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman, 1894

[On J.G. Lockhart's novel Adam Blair] in his introduction to The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart, 1897

'Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner', Illustrated London News, 1894

[On Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde], Scots Observer, January 1889

[On Robert Louis Stevenson's Catriona], Longman's Magazine, 1893

'Mr. J.M. Barrie's "The Little Minister"', Illustrated London News, 1891

'The Celtic Renascence', Blackwood's Magazine,1897

[Review of John Buchan's Scholar Gypsies], Cosmopolis, 1896

Introduction to Cuthbert Lennox, George Douglas Brown, Author of The House with the Green Shutters, 1903

'The Novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', Quarterly Review, 1904

English literature

'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Harper's Magazine, 1895

'Charlotte Bronte', Good Words, 1889.

'General Essay on the Works of Charles Dickens', The Gad's Hill Edition of Charles Dickens's Works, v. 34, 1899

Introduction to The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Gad's Hill Edition of Charles Dickens's Works, v. 33, 1899

[On George Gissing's Charles Dickens], Longman's Magazine, 1898

'The Plumber and the Publisher', Recreations of the Rabelais Club, 1882-1885, 1885

'Impressions of Swinburne', The Nation, 1906

[On Walter Pater's Miscellaneous Essays], Cosmopolis, 1896

[On the poetry of Francis Thompson], Cosmopolis, 1897

Thomas Hardy

[Review of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd], The Academy, 1875)

[On Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles], New Review, 1892, and Longman's Magazine, 1892

'Considerations on a Conversation' (on Thomas Hardy), The Independent (New York) 1901

Chronology of Lang's life

Bibliography

Index