PS Charles Lamb, Essayist (WS 2002/03)
TU Chemnitz
Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft
Dr. Marie-Luise Egbert
Semesterapparat
Chappell, Vere C., ed. (1998). Locke. Oxford: OUP. S1: 712818, CF 5803 loc
Coldwell, Joan, ed. 1978). Charles Lamb on Shakespeare. Gerard Cross: Colin Smythe. S1:
474147, HL 3461.
Dabundo, Laura, ed. (1992). Encyclopedia of Romanticism. Culture in Britain, 1780-1830s.
New York, London: Garland. S1: 479800.
Hazlitt, William (1994 [1807]). ¬A¬ Reply to the "Essay on Population" by the Rev. T. R.
Malthus in a Series of Letters: To Which Are Added, Extracts from the "Essay" ; with
Notes. London: Routledge/Thoemmes. S1: 490368, MS 4000 haz
----- (1991). Selected Writings. Oxford: OUP. S1: 417771.
Hazlitt, William Carew, ed. (1973). Lamb and Hazlitt. Further Letters and Records Hitherto
Unpublished. New York: AMS Press. S1: 474363, HL 3462.
Ireland, Alexander (1970 [1868]). List of Writings of William Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt, and
Charles Lamb. New York: Franklin. S1: 695 761.
Lamb, Charles (1932). The Last Essays of Elia. Ed. with an Introduction by Edmund Blunden.
Notes by Frederick Page. Oxford: OUP. S1:747 164; HL 3463 las 932
----- (1967). Selected Essays. Ed.John R. Nabholtz. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
Signatur/Sig.FD: S1: 474362, HL 3461.
----- (1978). Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia. Oxford: OUP. [bei Frau Knop bestellt]
----- (1985). Selected Prose. Ed. Adam Phillips. Harmondsworth: Penguin. S1: 443965, HL
3461.
----- (1991 [1798]). Rosamund Gray. Oxford. Woodstock. S1: 474406, HL 3463 ros.
----- (1993). Charles Lamb and Elia. Selected Writings. Ed. J.E. Morpurgo. Manchester:
Carcanet. S1: 474407, HL 3461.
----- /Mary Lamb (1950). Tales from Shakespeare. N.p.: Nelson. S1: 691134, HL 3463 lam.
----- (1987). More Tales from Shakespeare. Harlow: Longman. S1: 472753, HL 3461 mor.
----- (1994). Tales from Shakespeare. London: Puffin. [bei Frau Knop bestellt]
Löffler, Arno et al. (2001). Einführung in das Studium der englischen Literatur. Tübingen,
Basel: Francke.
McColman, Iain, ed. (1999). An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age. Oxford. OUP. S1:
711013.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem ¬de (1933). Les¬ Essais/5: Lexique de la langue des essais et
index des noms propres. S1(M): 384859, IF3580
Müllenbrock, Heinz-Joachim/Eberhard Späth (1977). Literatur des ¬18. Jahrhunderts.
Düsseldorf: Bagel. S1: 396353, HK 1070 mue
Noyes, Russell, ed. (1956). English Romanitc Poetry and Prose. New York: OUP.
S1: 487186.
Richter, Raoul/Lina Richter, eds (1913). Essays. Leipzig: Meiner. S1(M): 401583, CC5100
Schärf, Christian (1999). Geschichte des Essays: Von Montaigne bis Adorno. Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. S1: 686628, EC 7430 scha
Wu, Duncan, ed. (1998). A Companion to Romanticism. Oxford: Blackwell. S1: 717588.
---- (1994). Romanticism: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell. S1: 454 432.
More Reading on Lamb (Selected Titles)
Aaron, Jane. (1991). A Double Singleness. Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary
Lamb. Oxford: Clarendon. [UB Leipzig: 96-8-16703]
Ainger, Alfred (1893). Charles Lamb. (English Men of Letters 5, ed. by John Morley).
London: Macmillan. [UB Leipzig: HB Litg. 650: 5]
Courtney, Winifred F. (1982). Young Charles Lamb. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan.
[UB Leipzig: M LAM 94-8-11367]: Darin: "Chapter 16: Political Lamb". 186-202.
Morpurgo, J.E., ed. (1993). Charles Lamb and Elia. Manchester: Carcanet. [HL 3461]
Riehl, Joseph E. (1998). That Dangerous Figure: Charles Lamb and the Critics. Columbia,
SC: Camden. [UB Leipzig: (HL 3465 R 555 T 36) 98-8-20195]
Thompson, A.H. (1932). "Lamb". In: A.W. Ward/A.R. Waller (1932). The Cambridge History
of English Literature. Vol. XII: The Nineteenth Century I. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. [UB Leipzig, FH]
Tillyard, E.M.W., ed. (1923). Lamb's Criticism. A Selection from the Literary Criticism of
Charles Lamb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [HL 3461 cam 923]
Wedd, Mary (1992). "Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)". In: Jean Raimond/J.R. Waterson, eds. A
Handbook of English Romanticism. New York: St. Martin. [UB Leipzig, FH]
Standard edition of the collected works:
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Edward Varrell Lucas, ed. 7 vols. London, 1903-5.
Contents
Primary Reading
Charles Lamb:
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"Popular Fallacies: That We Should Lie Down with the Lamb"
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"Mackery End, in Hertfordshire"
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"The South-Sea House"
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"Popular Fallacies: That Handsome is That Handsome Does"
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"Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago"
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"A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig"
"Popular Fallacies: That We Must Not Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth"
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"Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading"
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"Oxford in the Vacation"
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"Popular Fallacies: That Home Is Home Though It Is Never So Homely"
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"Preface to the Last Essays of Elia"
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"The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple"
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"Popular Fallacies: That Ill-Gotten Gain Never Prospers"
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"Newspapers Thirty-Five Years Ago"
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"The Genteel Style in Writing"
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"Popular Fallacies: That the Poor Copy the Vices of the Rich"
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"My First Play"
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"A Chapter on Ears"
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"Popular Fallacies: That Enough Is As Good As a Feast"
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"Valentine's Day"
"Popular Fallacies" contained in:
Charles Lamb (1922). The Essays of Elia and the Last Essays of Elia. London etc.: OUP.
All Other Essays from:
[Charles Lamb. The Essays of Elia and the Last Essays of Elia. ]
Secondary Reading
Borinski, Ludwig (1968). "Die Vorgeschichte des englischen Essay". Anglia 83: 48-77.
Freiburg, Rudolf (2001). "Essayistik". Arno Löffler et al. Einführung in das Studium der
englischen Literatur. Tübingen, Basel: Francke, 146-170.
Good, Graham. (1988).
"The Essay as Genre",
"Hazlitt: Ventures of the Self",
"The Essay and Criticism".
The Observing Self: Rediscovering the Essay. London: Routledge, 1-25, 71-89, 176186.
Rowell, George (1979). "Comedy and the English Romantic Critics: Leigh Hunt, William
Hazlitt, Charles Lamb". In: Rüdiger Ahrens/Erwin Wolff, eds. Englische und
amerikansiche Literaturtheorie. Vol 2: Viktorianische Zeit und 20. Jahrhundert.
Heidelberg: Winter.
Reading on Term Papers, Presentations, Plagiarism
Handout "Term Papers"
"Kriterien für Feedback nach Referaten" (Webbler 1998)
Gibaldi, Joseph (1995). MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 4t ed. New York:
The Modern Langugage Association of America, xiii-xv, 2-2-5, 26-29.
Wray, Alison/Kate Trott/Aileen Bloomer (1998). "Plagiarism and How to Avoid It". Projects
in Linguistics. London etc.: Arnold, 241-254.