The Call of the Weird
Michael Ledger-Lomas: Last Gasp Apparitions, 4 April 2024
Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect
by John Sloan.
Oxford, 285 pp., £78, June 2023,978 0 19 286687 5 Show More
by John Sloan.
Oxford, 285 pp., £78, June 2023,
Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
by Owen Davies.
Oxford, 350 pp., £25, September 2023,978 0 19 887300 6 Show More
by Owen Davies.
Oxford, 350 pp., £25, September 2023,
“... shed, but he opposed the efforts of Oxford’s rising liberals to tidy up Christianity. He found Benjamin Jowett’s Hegelised Plato a poor substitute for St Paul and skipped Matthew Arnold’s poetry lectures because they clashed with cricket matches. All the same, he thrived. He won a fellowship at Merton. He translated French roundelays and befriended ... ”