The Selected Writings of Andrew Lang

Volume I: Folklore, Mythology, Anthropology (General and Theoretical)

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Note on the Texts

Introduction to Volume I

'Mythology and Fairy Tales', Fortnightly Review, May 1873

'Mr. Max Mueller's Philosophy of Mythology', Fraser's Magazine, August 1881

'Mythology', Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., 1911, revised from 1884

'The Method of Folklore', in his Custom and Myth, 1884, 1885

'The Romance of the First Radical', in his In the Wrong Paradise and other stories, 1886

[The Two Moods], in his Myth, Ritual and Religion, 1887, rev. 1899

'The President's [i.e. Lang's] Address', Papers and Transactions: International Folklore Congress, 1891, 1892

'Savage Spiritualism', in his Cock-Lane and Common Sense, 1894

'The Ghost Theory of the Origin of Religion', in his Cock-Lane and Common Sense, 1894

'Literary Fairy-Tales', Introduction to Little Johannes, 1894

[On William Morris and Samuel Butler; literary treatment of myth; Homer], Cosmopolis (Paris), 1898

[On J.G. Frazer, Archibald Sayce, and Flinders Petrie], Cosmopolis, 1898

[On J.G. Frazer's The Golden Bough], Folk-lore, 1901

'Mr. Tyler's Theory of Borrowing', in his Magic and Religion, 1901

[On Emile Durkheim's theory of the origin of society], Longman's Magazine, 1904

'The Comparative Study of Early Epics', in his Homer and His Age, 1906

'Method and the Study of Totemism', The American Anthropologist, 1912

'The Origin of Belief in a God', The Athenaeum, 1912