The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes (1830-1909)

by Boyle, Elizabeth; Russell, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781846822780
• ISBN10: 1846822785
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-05
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

This volume assesses the achievements and legacy of Whitley Stokes, a colonial jurist and Celtic scholar. The book brings together the diverse strands of his life, from his earliest years in Dublin, through his time in mid-19th-century London and his successful legal career in British India, to his later years as an important scholar of medieval Celtic languages and literatures. Contents include: Whitley Stokes Senior (1763-1845) * Stokes and Rudolf Siegfried * Stokes and the Pre-Raphaelites * Stokes and Irish Identity in British India * The Sanskrit Legacy of Stokes * The Letters of Stokes to Adalbert Kuhn * Stokes, Bradshaw, and Old Welsh in Cambridge * Stokes and Early Irish Law * Stokes, Standish Hayes O'Grady, and Acallam na Senorach

Author Biography

Elizabeth Boyle is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the University of Cambridge, and a Research Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. Paul Russell is Reader in Celtic in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Whitley Stokes senior (1763-1845) and his political, religious and cultural milieux	p. 14
'A shadowy but important figure': Rudolf Thomas Siegfried	p. 29
'The impiety of the intellect': Whitley Stokes and the Pre-Raphaelites	p. 44
'Patriot hare or colonial hound?' Whitley Stokes and Irish identity in British India, 1862-81	p. 59
Reading between the lines: Whitley Stokes, scribbles and the scholarly apparatus	p. 78
The Sanskrit legacy of Whitley Stokes	p. 98
Whitley Stokes and the Rubáiyát of 'Omar Khayyám	p. 111
Comparative philology and mythology: the letters of Whitley Stokes to Adalbert Kuhn	p. 119
Whitley Stokes and the study of Continental Celtic	p. 134
Grilling in Calcutta: Whitley Stokes, Henry Bradshaw and Old Welsh in Cambridge	p. 144
Whitley Stokes and early Irish law	p. 161
'Their harmless calling': Whitley Stokes and the Irish linguistic tradition	p. 175
Whitley Stokes, Standish Hayes O'Grady and Acallam na Senórach	p. 185
Whitley Stokes and Modern Irish	p. 196
Bibliography	p. 218
Index of Archival Sources	p. 241
General Index	p. 246
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