Selected prose of James Clarence Mangan / editors Jacques Chuto, Peter van de Kamp, and Ellen Shannon-Mangan ; foreword A. Norman Jeffares.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mangan, James Clarence, 1803-1849.

Contributor:

Chuto, Jacques.

Van de Kamp, Peter, 1956-

Shannon-Mangan, Ellen.

Jeffares, A. Norman (Alexander Norman), 1920-2005.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mangan, James Clarence, 1803-1849.

Mangan, James Clarence.

Irish literature--19th century.

Irish literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 357 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Bicentenary Edition.

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, [2004]

Contents:

The Two Flats; or, Our Quackstitution. An Apologue 1

An Extraordinary Adventure in the Shades 7

A Treatise on a Pair of Tongs 18

My Transformation. A Wonderful Tale 30

from Anthologia Germanica. No. I. The Lyrical and Smaller Poems of Schiller 37

from Anthologia Germanica. No. IV. The Poems of Matthison and Salis 40

from Anthologia Germanica. No. VI. The German Fabulists 45

from Anthologia Germanica. No. VII. Kerner's Lyrical Poems 48

from Anthologia Germanica. No. X. Tieck and the Other Song-Singers of Germany 59

from Literae Orientales. Persian and Turkish Poetry. First Article 64

from Literae Orientales. Turkish Poetry. Second Article 71

from Anthologia Germanica. No. XII. The Less Translatable Poems of Schiller 76

The Thirty Flasks 79

The Man in the Cloak. A Very German Story 138

from Anthologia Germanica. No. XIV. Gellert's Tales and Fables 165

A Sixty-Drop Dose of Laudanum 169

from Anthologia Germanica. No. XV. Wetzel's Poems 189

from Literae Orientales. No. IV. Arabian, Persian and Turkish Poetry 193

The Discontented Stones 197

The Story of the Old Wolf 201

Bodach an Chota-Lachtna, or The Clown with the Grey Coat 207

My Bugle, and How I Blow It 216

Chapters on Ghostcraft: Comprising some account of the life and revelations of Madame Hauffe, the celebrated Wirtemberg Ghost-seeress 223

from Anthologia Germanica. No. XVII. Ballads and Romances 244

The Threefold Prediction: A Psychological Narrative 248

from Anthologia Hibernica. No. I 270

from Introduction to The Poets and Poetry of Munster 272

Sketches and Reminiscences of Irish Writers. No. I. Maturin 278

Sketches and Reminiscences of Irish Writers. No. III. John Anster 282

Sketches and Reminiscences of Irish Writers. No. VI. Gerald Griffin 285

Sketches and Reminiscences of Irish Writers. No. IX. William Maginn 288

Autobiography 292.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

071652791x

0716527928

OCLC:

56943927