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,
“... dropped his pen to whack golf balls, flick fishing rods or browse the bookstalls by the Seine (Henry James thought that Lang was too ‘insular and innocent’ to appreciate Paris). But he could only afford to be interested in a topic for the time it took to dash off an article about it. As Oxonian contemporaries racked up professorships, he became an aged ... ”