Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, Volume One: Anthropology, Fairy Tale, Folklore, the Origins of Religion, Psychical Research
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 99q20
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, Volume One
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474400213
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is one of two volumes making up the first scholarly edition of Andrew Lang’s writings, co-edited by Wilson. Wilson was jointly responsible for selecting the material in volume one, which demonstrates Lang's central and underacknowledged place in late nineteenth-century intellectual culture. Each volume was prepared using the first published version of each work included in the edition, many of which were out of print or available only in the original, non-digitised periodicals. For volume 1, Wilson was also co-author (with Prof Andrew Teverson) of the substantial annotations (endnotes), explaining allusions, providing biographical and contextual references, following up Lang’s citations to provide a detailed sense of his intellectual milieux and providing translations and cross-references. Among other texts, Volume 1 contains previously unpublished letters from Lang. None of the originals are dated, and the volume contains substantial notes dating the letters from internal evidence. The primary research contribution of the volume additionally includes the introduction to volume 1 (15,000 words), of which Wilson was co-author, which for the first time gives a comprehensive and critical sense of Lang’s place in the intellectual context of the late nineteenth century. In doing so, it demonstrates Lang’s centrality to a number of discourses – anthropology, historical studies, folklore and psychical research – that were shaping themselves in the period and through which the sense of the ‘modern’ was being debated and forged.
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