Some strange English literary figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : in a series of lectures / by Lafcadio Hearn ; edited by R. Tanabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Milton Mausner Collection of Lafcadio Hearn (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Authors, English.

English literature--19th century.

English literature.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- Japan -- Tokyo -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Buck, John H. (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Mausner, Milton A., Estate of (donor) (Mausner Collection copy)

Mausner, Milton A., 1918-2012 (former owner) (Mausner Collection copy)

Physical Description:

140 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (1 color), portraits ; 19 cm

Other Title:

Japanese title in colophon: Koizumi Yakumo Eibungaku kijinden

Japanese title in colophon: 小泉八雲英文學畸人傳

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : Hokuseido Press, [1927]

Contents:

Strange figures of the eighteenth century: William Blake. Bernard de Mandeville. Erasmus Darwin. William Beckford. Christopher Smart

Curious literary figures of the nineteenth century: George Borrow. "Monk Lewis," and the school of horror and mystery. Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Walter Savage Landor. Thomas Love Peacock

Appendix: Blake, the first English mystic.

Notes:

"Lectures ... delivered ... to the students of English literature, graduate class on 1899, Imperial University of Tokyo."--Editor's preface.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of John H. Buck.

Mausner Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by the estate of Milton A. Mausner.

Mausner Collection copy: dust jacket (printed with publisher's advertisement) retained.

Mausner Collection copy has label printed in Roman ("SAWATA") and Chinese characters affixed to interior front flap of dust jacket.

OCLC:

1579948