The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan Prose V1 Prose 1832-1839

by Chuto, Jacques; Martin, Augustine; Kamp, Peter Van De; Shannon-Mangan, Ellen; Mangan, James Clarence

• ISBN13: 9780716525776
• ISBN10: 0716525771
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-30
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Summary

Mangan's prose comes in a variety of forms: Essays, stories, apologies, biographical sketches, comic articles, introductions to his poems and translations, a handful of surviving letters, an unfinished auto-biography. These prose publications appeared in a wide range of contemporary journals and newspapers demanding from the editors a great deal of scholarly detective work, especially when it came to Mangan's chameleon way with pseudonyms.

Many of his most famous pieces, like 'The Thirty Flasks', 'A Sixty-Drop Dose Of Laudanum', 'The Three Rings', Extraordinary Adventure In The Shades'; a translation from the Irish like 'The Clown With The Grey Coat', or from the German, like 'The Story Of The Old Wolf, have appeared in the editions by Meehan and O'Donoghue. It was always necessary to check these against the earliest published versions, which sometimes exposed serious errors in the later text. With those prose pieces which presented otherwise insoluble problems of attribution, contiguous letter pair analysis has been employed to determine authorship.

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Table of Contents

General Introduction	vii
Introduction to the Prose Volumes	ix
Note on the Text	xiii
1832
The Two Flats; or, Our Quackstitution. An Apologue	1	(6)
Italian Literature	7	(2)
1833
Very Original Correspondence	9	(5)
An Extraordinary Adventure in the Shades	14	(11)
Flashes of Lightning	25	(1)
A Treatise on a Pair Tongs	26	(12)
The Irish Language	38	(1)
My Transformation. A Wonderful Tale	39	(7)
1834
A Dialogue in the Shades; but not a ``Dialogue of the Dead''	46	(6)
Love, Mystery, and Murder. A Tale	52	(13)
1835
Anthologia Germanica. No. I. The Lyrical and Smaller Poems of Schiller	65	(6)
Anthologia Germanica. No. II. Schiller's Lay of the Bell and Message to the Iron Foundry	71	(4)
Anthologia Germanica. No. III. Miscellaneous Poems and Metrical Tales	75	(5)
Anthologia Germanica. No. IV. The Poems of Matthison and Salis	80	(6)
1836
Anthologia Germanica. No. V. Faust, and the Minor Poems of Goethe	86	(11)
Anthologia Germanica. No. VI. The German Fabulists	97	(8)
Anthologia Germanica. No. VII. Kerner's Lyrical Poems	105	(12)
Anthologia Germanica. No. VIII. Schiller's Drama of Wallenstein's Camp	117	(2)
1837
Anthologia Germanica. No. X. Tieck and the Other Song-Singers of Germany	119	(9)
Literæ Orientales. Persian and Turkish Poetry. First Article	128	(17)
Anthologia Germanica. No. XI. Miscellaneous Poems	145	(5)
1838
Literæ Orientales. Turkish Poetry. Second Article	150	(11)
Anthologia Germanica. No. XII. The Less Translatable Poems of Schiller	161	(5)
Anthologia Germanica. No. XIII. M. Klauer Klattowski's Publications	166	(4)
Literæ Orientales. Turkish Poetry. Third Article	170	(8)
The Thirty Flasks	178	(61)
The Man in the Cloak. A Very German Story	239	(28)
1839
Anthologia Germanica. No. XIV. Gellert's Tales and Fables	267	(5)
A Sixty-Drop Dose of Laudanum	272	(20)
A Polyglott Anthology. Developed in from of a dialogue	292	(13)
Anthologia Germanica. No. XV. Wetzel's Poems. First Notice	305	(4)
Anthologia Germanica. No. XV. Wetzel's Remains. Second Article. The Meteor of Kasan. A Tragedy	309	(11)
Notes	320	(73)
Appendix to the Notes	393