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Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 4 -

Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 4

Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia

Gregory Dart (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
1062 Seiten
2026
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-888298-5 (ISBN)
CHF 349,00 inkl. MwSt
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This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia, Charles Lamb's masterpieces of the Romantic essay form written in his Elia persona. Lamb's seminal essays are presented with critical and textual introductions, explanatory notes, and textual variants.
'I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.'

Charles Lamb was employed full-time as a clerk in the City of London for most of his adult life, hence his literary output is relatively small when compared with freelance contemporaries such as Thomas De Quincey or William Hazlitt (P.P. Howe's complete Hazlitt edition of the 1930s runs to twenty-one volumes; E. V. Lucas's 1903 edition of The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb has five). Nevertheless, what Lamb's oeuvre might lack in size it more than makes up for in quality: both as a contributor to the great Romantic conversation about art and life, and as the English language's greatest familiar essayist, Lamb is an indispensable figure.

This volume contains Elia (1823) and the Last Essays of Elia (1833), the essay collections for which he is best known. It is the fourth volume in the Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, the first scholarly edition of their works in a century.

Gregory Dart spent his undergraduate and graduate years (from 1986 to 1993) at the University of Cambridge. From 1993 he was a lecturer at the University of York, and he has been at UCL since 2000. His publications include Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism (1999), on the influence of the French Revolution on the Romantics, and Cockney Adventures (2012), a study of the development of new kinds of metropolitan art and literature in the years 1815-40. In 2010 Dart edited a collection of essays, Restless Cities, with his colleague Matthew Beaumont and he is now working with him on another collection of city essays. His research, both current and prospective, is centrally concerned with Romanticism, the city, and the history and development of the essay form from Montaigne to the modern period.

Acknowledgements
List of Short Titles
List of Illustrations
Biographical Chronology of Charles and Mary Lamb
Biographical Register
General Editor's Preface
A Note on the Citation of Lamb's Manuscripts and Letters
Critical Introduction
Textual Introduction
ELIA (1823)
LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA (1833)
Explanatory Notes
Appendices I-VII
Bibliography of Charles and Mary Lamb's Works
Select Critical Bibliography for Elia and the Last Essays

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Complete Works Of Charles And Mary Lamb
Zusatzinfo 12 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-888298-X / 019888298X
ISBN-13 978-0-19-888298-5 / 9780198882985
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